The Mal'tsev operation on countably compact spaces
It is shown that any set-open topology on the automorphism group A(X) of a chain X coincides with the pointwise topology and that A(X) is a topological group with respect to this topology. Topological properties of connectedness and compactness in A(X) are investigated. In particular, it is shown that the automorphism group of a doubly homogeneous chain is generated by any neighborhood of the identity element.
The concept of topological group is a simple combination of the concepts of abstract group and topological space. The purpose of this paper is to combine the concepts of topological space and rough groups; called topological rough groups on an approximation space.