Assuming Martin’s Axiom, we provide an example of two Fréchet-Urysohn -spaces, whose product is a non-Fréchet-Urysohn -space. This gives a consistent negative answer to a question raised by T. Nogura.
Starting with a very simple proof of Frol’ık’s theorem on homeomorphisms of extremally disconnected spaces, we show how this theorem implies a well known result of Malychin: that every extremally disconnected topological group contains an open and closed subgroup, consisting of elements of order . We also apply Frol’ık’s theorem to obtain some further theorems on the structure of extremally disconnected topological groups and of semitopological groups with continuous inverse. In particular, every...