On strongly reflexive topological groups

An Abelian topological group G is strongly reflexive if every closed subgroup and every Hausdorff quotient of G and of its dual group G^, is reflexive. In this paper we prove the following: the annihilator of a closed subgroup of an almost metrizable group is topologically isomorphic to the dual of...

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Authors: Martin-Peinador, E. (E.)|||/items/a50833c3-5aaf-4de2-a2ba-c5af3f8123fe, Chasco, M.J. (María Jesús)|||/items/1a5675d0-b528-49b9-8e76-ad17aa596eb9
Format: article
Publication Date:2001
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Navarra
Repository:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/58491
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/58491
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Pontryagin duality theorem
Dual group
Reflexive group
Almost metrizable group
Čech-complete group
Strongly reflexive group
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Summary:An Abelian topological group G is strongly reflexive if every closed subgroup and every Hausdorff quotient of G and of its dual group G^, is reflexive. In this paper we prove the following: the annihilator of a closed subgroup of an almost metrizable group is topologically isomorphic to the dual of the corresponding Hausdorff quotient, and an analogous statement holds for the character group of the starting group. As a consequence of this perfect duality, an almost metrizable group is strongly reflexive just if its Hausdorff quotients, as well as the Hausdorff quotients of its dual, are reflexive. The simplification obtained may be significant from an operative point of view.