We study relations between the cellularity and index of narrowness in topological groups and their $G_{\delta }$-modifications. We show, in particular, that the inequalities $in\left({\left(H\right)}_{\tau }\right)\le 2^{\tau ·in\left(H\right)}$ and $c\left({\left(H\right)}_{\tau }\right)\le 2^{2^{\tau ·in\left(H\right)}}$ hold for every topological group $H$ and every cardinal $\tau \ge \omega$, where ${\left(H\right)}_{\tau }$ denotes the underlying group $H$ endowed with the $G_{\tau }$-modification of the original topology of $H$ and $in\left(H\right)$ is the index of narrowness of the group $H$. Also, we find some bounds for the complexity of continuous real-valued functions $f$ on an arbitrary $\omega$-narrow group...

We introduce and study, following Z. Frol’ık, the class $ℬ\left(𝒫\right)$ of regular $P$-spaces $X$ such that the product $X\times Y$ is pseudo-${\aleph }_1$-compact, for every regular pseudo-${\aleph }_1$-compact $P$-space $Y$. We show that every pseudo-${\aleph }_1$-compact space which is locally $ℬ\left(𝒫\right)$ is in $ℬ\left(𝒫\right)$ and that every regular Lindelöf $P$-space belongs to $ℬ\left(𝒫\right)$. It is also proved that all pseudo-${\aleph }_1$-compact $P$-groups are in $ℬ\left(𝒫\right)$. The problem of characterization of subgroups of $ℝ$-factorizable (equivalently, pseudo-${\aleph }_1$-compact) $P$-groups is considered as well. We...

Throughout this abstract, $G$ is a topological Abelian group and $\widehat{G}$ is the space of continuous homomorphisms from $G$ into the circle group $𝕋$ in the compact-open topology. A dense subgroup $D$ of $G$ is said to determine $G$ if the (necessarily continuous) surjective isomorphism $\widehat{G}\twoheadrightarrow \widehat{D}$ given by $h\mapsto h|D$ is a homeomorphism, and $G$ is determined if each dense subgroup of $G$ determines $G$. The principal result in this area, obtained independently by L. Außenhofer and M. J. Chasco, is the following: Every metrizable...

According to Comfort, Raczkowski and Trigos-Arrieta, a dense subgroup D of a compact abelian group G determines G if the restriction homomorphism Ĝ → D̂ of the dual groups is a topological isomorphism. We introduce four conditions on D that are necessary for it to determine G and we resolve the following question: If one of these conditions holds for every dense (or $G_{\delta }$-dense) subgroup D of G, must G be metrizable? In particular, we prove (in ZFC) that a compact abelian group determined...

Let $S\left(RG\right)$ be a normed Sylow $p$-subgroup in a group ring $RG$ of an abelian group $G$ with $p$-component $G_p$ and a $p$-basic subgroup $B$ over a commutative unitary ring $R$ with prime characteristic $p$. The first central result is that $1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)$ is basic in $S\left(RG\right)$ and $B[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)$, and $[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]G_p/G_p$ is basic in $S\left(RG\right)/G_p$ and $[1+I(RG;B_p)+I(R\left(p^i\right)G;G)]G/G$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)/G$, provided in both cases $G/G_p$ is $p$-divisible and $R$ is such that its maximal perfect subring $R^{p^i}$ has no nilpotents whenever $i$ is natural. The second major result is that $B(1+I(RG;B_p))$ is $p$-basic in $V\left(RG\right)$ and $(1+I(RG;B_p))G/G$ is $p$-basic...

For various pairs of topological properties such that P ⇒ Q, we consider two questions: (A) Does every topological group topology with P extend properly to a topological group topology with Q, and (B) must a topological group with P have a proper dense subgroup with Q? We obtain negative results and positive results. Principal among the latter is the statement that any pseudocompact group G of uncountable weight which satisfies any of the following three conditions has both a strictly...