{"title":"Two observations on extremally disconnected topological groups","authors":"Yi Zhou , Jialiang He , Hang Zhang , Shuguo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.topol.2025.109543","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By modifying a method of Malykhin's, we construct two Hausdorff group topologies on the uncountable Boolean group <span><math><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>]</mo></mrow><mrow><mo><</mo><mi>ω</mi></mrow></msup><mo>,</mo><mo>▵</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span> which are both nondiscrete and extremally disconnected. This is accomplished by working under ZFC plus Jensen's Diamond Principle. The first one has the property that all subgroups of the form <span><math><msup><mrow><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>∖</mo><mi>α</mi><mo>]</mo></mrow><mrow><mo><</mo><mi>ω</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> are dense and all countable subsets of <span><math><msup><mrow><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo>]</mo></mrow><mrow><mo><</mo><mi>ω</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> are closed and discrete. This answers a question posed by C.A. Martínez-Ranero and U.A. Ramos-García <span><span>[7, Question 3.4]</span></span>. The second one has the property that some subgroup (endowed with the subspace topology) fails to be extremally disconnected. This answers a question posed by Arhangel'skii and Tkachenko <span><span>[2, Open Problems 4.5.1]</span></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51201,"journal":{"name":"Topology and its Applications","volume":"373 ","pages":"Article 109543"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Topology and its Applications","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166864125003414","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
By modifying a method of Malykhin's, we construct two Hausdorff group topologies on the uncountable Boolean group which are both nondiscrete and extremally disconnected. This is accomplished by working under ZFC plus Jensen's Diamond Principle. The first one has the property that all subgroups of the form are dense and all countable subsets of are closed and discrete. This answers a question posed by C.A. Martínez-Ranero and U.A. Ramos-García [7, Question 3.4]. The second one has the property that some subgroup (endowed with the subspace topology) fails to be extremally disconnected. This answers a question posed by Arhangel'skii and Tkachenko [2, Open Problems 4.5.1].
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Topology and its Applications is primarily concerned with publishing original research papers of moderate length. However, a limited number of carefully selected survey or expository papers are also included. The mathematical focus of the journal is that suggested by the title: Research in Topology. It is felt that it is inadvisable to attempt a definitive description of topology as understood for this journal. Certainly the subject includes the algebraic, general, geometric, and set-theoretic facets of topology as well as areas of interactions between topology and other mathematical disciplines, e.g. topological algebra, topological dynamics, functional analysis, category theory. Since the roles of various aspects of topology continue to change, the non-specific delineation of topics serves to reflect the current state of research in topology.
At regular intervals, the journal publishes a section entitled Open Problems in Topology, edited by J. van Mill and G.M. Reed. This is a status report on the 1100 problems listed in the book of the same name published by North-Holland in 1990, edited by van Mill and Reed.