The abelian subgroup conjecture: A counter example.
Throughout this abstract, is a topological Abelian group and is the space of continuous homomorphisms from into the circle group in the compact-open topology. A dense subgroup of is said to determine if the (necessarily continuous) surjective isomorphism given by is a homeomorphism, and is determined if each dense subgroup of determines . The principal result in this area, obtained independently by L. Außenhofer and M. J. Chasco, is the following: Every metrizable group is...
For any topological group the dual object is defined as the set of equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations of equipped with the Fell topology. If is compact, is discrete. In an earlier paper we proved that is discrete for every metrizable precompact group, i.e. a dense subgroup of a compact metrizable group. We generalize this result to the case when is an almost metrizable precompact group.