Free Topological Algebra with Separately Continuous Mal’tsev Operation

Abstract

Topological spaces with separately continuous Mal’tsev operation, called quasi-Mal’tsev spaces, are considered. The existence of the free quasi-Mal’tsev space generated by an arbitrary completely regular Hausdorff space is proved. It is shown that any quasi-Mal’tsev space is a quotient of a free quasi-Mal’tsev space. It is also shown that the topology of a free quasi-Mal’tsev space has a simple and natural description in terms of the generating space. Finally, it is proved that any completely regular Hausdorff quasi-Mal’tsev space is a retract of a quasi-topological group.