Countably compact groups without non-trivial convergent sequences

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Publication date 02-2021
Journal Transactions of the Americal Mathematical Society
Volume | Issue number 374 | 2
Pages (from-to) 1277-1296
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract We construct, in ZFC, a countably compact subgroup of 2c without non-trivial convergent sequences, answering an old problem of van Douwen. As a consequence we also prove the existence of two countably compact groups G0 and G1 such that the product G0 × G1 is not countably compact, thus answering a classical problem of Comfort.
Document type Article
Note © Copyright 2020 American Mathematical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8222
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