Topologies on groups determined by right cancellable ultrafilters

Protasov, I. V.

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, Tome 50 (2009) no. 1, pp. 135-139

Résumé

For every discrete group $G$, the Stone-Čech compactification $\beta G$ of $G$ has a natural structure of a compact right topological semigroup. An ultrafilter $p\in G^*$, where $G^*=\beta G\setminus G$, is called right cancellable if, given any $q,r\in G^*$, $qp=rp$ implies $q=r$. For every right cancellable ultrafilter $p\in G^*$, we denote by $G(p)$ the group $G$ endowed with the strongest left invariant topology in which $p$ converges to the identity of $G$. For any countable group $G$ and any right cancellable ultrafilters $p,q\in G^*$, we show that $G(p)$ is homeomorphic to $G(q)$ if and only if $p$ and $q$ are of the same type.

Détail

Classification : 54C05, 54G15, 54H11
Keywords: Stone-Čech compactification; right cancellable ultrafilters; left invariant topologies