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A paratopological group G is saturated if the inverse U
⁻¹ of each non-empty set U ⊂ G has non-empty interior. It
is shown that a [first-countable] paratopological group H is a closed
subgroup of a saturated (totally bounded) [abelian] paratopological
group if and only if H admits a continuous bijective homomorphism
onto a (totally bounded) [abelian] topological group G [such that
for each neighborhood U ⊂ H of the unit e there is a closed subset
F ⊂ G with e ∈ h
⁻¹
(F) ⊂ U]. As an application we construct a
paratopological group whose character exceeds its π-weight as well
as the character of its group reflexion. Also we present several examples of (para)topological groups which are subgroups of totally
bounded paratopological groups but fail to be subgroups of regular
totally bounded paratopological groups.
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Algebra and Discrete Mathematics RESEARCH ARTICLE
Number 4. (2003). pp. 1 – 20
c© Journal “Algebra and Discrete Mathematics”
On subgroups of saturated or totally bounded
paratopological groups
Taras Banakh and Sasha Ravsky
Communicated by M. Ya. Komarnytskyj
Dedicated to R. I. Grigorchuk on the occasion of his 50th birthday
Abstract. A paratopological group G is saturated if the in-
verse U−1 of each non-empty set U ⊂ G has non-empty interior. It
is shown that a [first-countable] paratopological group H is a closed
subgroup of a saturated (totally bounded) [abelian] paratopological
group if and only if H admits a continuous bijective homomorphism
onto a (totally bounded) [abelian] topological group G [such that
for each neighborhood U ⊂ H of the unit e there is a closed subset
F ⊂ G with e ∈ h−1(F ) ⊂ U ]. As an application we construct a
paratopological group whose character exceeds its π-weight as well
as the character of its group reflexion. Also we present several ex-
amples of (para)topological groups which are subgroups of totally
bounded paratopological groups but fail to be subgroups of regular
totally bounded paratopological groups.
In this paper we continue investigations of paratopological groups,
started by the authors in [Ra1], [Ra2], [BR1]. By a paratopological group
we understand a pair (G, τ) consisting of a group G and a topology τ on
G making the group operation · : G × G → G of G continuous (such a
topology τ will be called a semigroup topology on G). If, in addition, the
operation (·)−1 : G → G of taking the inverse is continuous with respect
to the topology τ , then (G, τ) is a topological group. All topological spaces
considered in this paper are supposed to be Hausdorff if the opposite is
not stated.
The first author was supported in part by the Slovenian-Ukrainian research grant
SLO-UKR 02-03/04.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 22A15, 54H10, 54H11.
Key words and phrases: saturated paratopological group, group reflexion.
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.2 On subgroups of saturated paratopological groups
The absence of the continuity of the inverse in paratopological groups
results in appearing various pathologies impossible in the category of
topological groups, which makes the theory of paratopological groups
quite interesting and unpredictable. In [Gu] I. Guran has introduced
a relatively narrow class of so-called saturated paratopological groups
which behave much like usual topological groups. Following I.Guran we
define a paratopological group G to be saturated if the inverse U−1 of
any nonempty open subset U of G has non-empty interior in G. A stan-
dard example of a saturated paratopological group with discontinuous
inverse is the Sorgenfrey line, that is the real line endowed with the Sor-
genfrey topology generated by the base consisting of half-intervals [a, b),
a < b. Important examples of saturated paratopological groups are to-
tally bounded groups, that is paratopological groups G such that for any
neighborhood U ⊂ G of the origin in G there is a finite subset F ⊂ G
with G = FU = UF , see [Ra3, Proposition 3.1].
Observing that each subgroup of the Sorgenfrey line is saturated,
I.Guran asked if the same is true for any saturated paratopological group.
This question can be also posed in another way: which paratopological
groups embed into saturated ones? A similar question concerning em-
bedding into totally bounded semi- or paratopological groups appeared
in [AH].
In this paper we shall show that the necessary and sufficient condition
for a paratopological group G to embed into a saturated (totally bounded)
paratopological group is the existence of a bijective continuous group
homomorphism h : G → H onto a topological (totally bounded) group
H. The latter property of G will be referred to as the [-separateness
(resp. Bohr separateness).
[-Separated paratopological groups can be equivalently defined with
help of the group reflexion of a paratopological group. Given a paratopo-
logical group G let τ [ be the strongest group topology on G, weaker than
the topology of G. The topological group G[ = (G, τ [), called the group
reflexion of G, has the following characteristic property: the identity
map i : G → G[ is continuous and for every continuous group homomor-
phism h : G → H from G into a topological group H the homomorphism
h ◦ i−1 : G[ → H is continuous. According to [BR1], a neighborhood
base of the unit of the group reflexion G[ of a saturated (more generally,
2-oscillating) paratopological group G consists of the sets UU−1 where
U runs over neighborhoods of the unit in G. For instance, the group
reflexion of the Sorgenfrey line is the usual real line.
There is also a dual notion of a group co-reflexion. Given a paratopo-
logical group G let τ] be the weakest group topology on G, stronger than
the topology of G. The topological group G] = (G, τ]) is called the group
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co-reflexion of G. According to [Ra1], a neighborhood base of the unit
of the group co-reflexion G] of a paratopological group G consists of the
sets U ∩ U−1 where U runs over neighborhoods of the unit in G. A
paratopological group is called ]-discrete provided its group co-reflection
is discrete. For instance, the Sorgenfrey line is ]-discrete.
A subset A of a paratopological group G will be called [-closed if A is
closed in the topology τ [. A paratopological group G is called [-separated
provided its group reflexion G[ is Hausdorff; G is called [-regular if each
neighborhood U of the unit e of G contains a [-closed neighborhood of
e. It is easy to see that each [-regular paratopological group is regular
and [-separated, see [BR1]. For saturated groups the converse is also
true: each regular saturated paratopological group is [-regular, see [BR1,
Theorem 3].
The notions of a [-separated (resp. [-regular) paratopological group is
a partial case of a more general notion of a G-separated (resp. G-regular)
paratopological group, where G is a class of topological groups. Namely,
we call a paratopological group G to be
• G-separated if G admits a continuous bijective homomorphism h :
G → H onto a topological group H ∈ G;
• G-regular if G admits a regular continuous homomorphism h : G →
H onto a topological group H ∈ G.
A continuous map h : X → Y between topological spaces is defined
to be regular if for each point x ∈ X and a neighborhood U of x in X
there is a closed subset F ⊂ Y such that h−1(F ) is a closed neighborhood
of x with h−1(F ) ⊂ U .
As we shall see later, any injective continuous map from a kω-space
is regular. We remind that a topological space X is defined to be a
kω-space if there is a countable cover K of X by compact subsets of X,
determining the topology of X in the sense that a subset U of X is open
in X if and only if the intersection U∩K is open in K for any compact set
K ∈ K. According to [FT], each Hausdorff kω-space is normal. Under a
(para)topological kω-group we shall understand a (para)topological group
whose underlying topological space is kω. Many examples of kω-spaces
appear in topological algebra as free objects in various categories, see
[Cho]. In particular, the free (abelian) topological group over a compact
Hausdorff space is a topological kω-group, see [Gra].
Proposition 1. Any injective continuous map f : X → Y from a Haus-
dorff kω-space X into a Hausdorff space Y is regular.
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Proof. Fix any point x ∈ X and an open neighborhood U ⊂ X of x. Let
{Kn} be an increasing sequence of compacta determining the topology of
the space X. Without loss of generality, we may assume that K0 = {x}.
Let V0 = K0 and W0 = Y .
By induction, for every n ≥ 1 we shall find an open neighborhood Vn
of x in Kn and an open neighborhood Wn of f(V n) in Y such that
1) f−1(Wn) ∩ Kn ⊂ U ;
2) V n ⊂ U ∩
⋂
i≤n f−1(Wi);
3) V n ⊂ Vn+1.
Assume that for some n the sets Vi, Wi, i < n, have been constructed.
It follows from (2) that f(V n−1) and f(Kn \U) are disjoint compact sets
in the Hausdorff space Y . Consequently, the compact set f(V n−1) has an
open neighborhood Wn ⊂ Y whose closure Wn misses the compact set
f(Kn \U). Such a choice of Wn and the condition (2) imply that V n−1 ⊂
U ∩
⋂
i≤n f−1(Wi). Using the normality of the compact space Kn find an
open neighborhood Vn of V n−1 in Kn such that V n ⊂ U ∩
⋂
i≤n f−1(Wi),
which finishes the inductive step.
It is easy to see that V =
⋃
n∈ω Vn is an open neighborhood of x such
that f−1(f(V )) ⊂ f−1(
⋂
i∈ω W i) ⊂ U , which just yields the regularity of
the map f .
For paratopological kω-groups this proposition yields the equivalence
between the G-regularity and G-separateness.
Corollary 1. Let G be a class of topological groups. A paratopological
kω-group is G-separated if and only if it is G-regular.
A class G of topological groups will be called
• closed-hereditary if each closed subgroup of a group G ∈ G belongs
to the class G;
• H-stable, where H is a topological group, if G × H ∈ G for any
topological group G ∈ G.
For a topological space X by χ(X) we denote its character, equal to
the smallest cardinal κ such that each point x ∈ X has a neighborhood
base of size ≤ κ.
Now we are able to give a characterization of subgroups of saturated
paratopological groups (possessing certain additional properties).
Theorem 1. Suppose T is a saturated ]-discrete nondiscrete paratopo-
logical group and G is a closed-hereditary T [-stable class of topological
groups. A paratopological group H is G-separated if and only if H is a
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[-closed subgroup of a saturated paratopological group G with G[ ∈ G,
χ(G) = max{χ(H), χ(T )}, and |G/H| = |T |.
A similar characterization holds for G-regular paratopological groups.
We remind that a paratopological group G is called a paratopological SIN-
group if any neighborhood U of the unit e in G contains a neighborhood
W ⊂ G of e such that gWg−1 ⊂ U for all g ∈ G. It is easy to check
that every paratopological SIN-group has a base at the unit consisting of
invariant open neighborhoods, see [Ra3, Ch.4] (as expected, a subset A
of a group G is called invariant if xAx−1 = A for all x ∈ G).
Finally we define a notion of a Sorgenfrey paratopological group which
crystallizes some important properties of the Sorgenfrey topology on the
real line. A paratopological group G is defined to be Sorgenfrey if G is
non-discrete, saturated and contains a neighborhood U of the unit e such
that for any neighborhood V ⊂ G of e there is a neighborhood W ⊂ G
of e such that x, y ∈ V for any elements x, y ∈ U with xy ∈ W . Observe
that each Sorgenfrey paratopological group is ]-discrete.
Theorem 2. Suppose T is a first countable saturated regular Sorgenfrey
paratopological SIN-group and G is a closed-hereditary T [-stable class of
first countable topological SIN-groups. A paratopological group H is G-
regular if and only if H is a [-closed subgroup of a saturated [-regular
paratopological group G with G[ ∈ G, χ(G) = χ(H), and |G/H| = |T |.
Theorem 2 in combination with Corollary 1 yield
Corollary 2. Suppose T is a first countable saturated regular Sorgenfrey
paratopological SIN-group and G is a closed-hereditary T [-stable class of
first countable topological SIN-groups. A paratopological kω-group H is G-
separated if and only if H is a [-closed subgroup of a saturated [-regular
paratopological group G with G[ ∈ G, χ(G) = χ(H), and |G/H| = |T |.
As we said, any (regular) saturated paratopological group is [-sepa-
rated (and [-regular), see [BR1]. Observe that a paratopological group G
is [-separated if and only if G is TopGr-separated where TopGr stands
for the class of all Hausdorff topological groups. These observations and
Theorem 1 imply
Corollary 3. A paratopological group H is [-separated if and only if H
is a ([-closed) subgroup of a saturated paratopological group.
Unfortunately we do not know the answer to the obvious [-regular
version of the above corollary.
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Problem 1. Is every [-regular paratopological group a subgroup of a reg-
ular saturated paratopological group?
For first-countable paratopological SIN-groups the answer to this pro-
blem is affirmative.
Corollary 4. A first-countable paratopological SIN-group H is [-regular
if and only if H is a [-closed subgroup of a regular first-countable saturated
paratopological SIN-group G with |G/H| = ℵ0.
Proof. Taking into account that H is a first-countable paratopological
SIN-group and applying [BR1, Proposition 3], we conclude that H[ is a
first-countable topological SIN-group. Let T be the quotient group Q/Z
of the group of rational numbers, endowed with the Sorgenfrey topol-
ogy generated by the base consisting of half-intervals. Observe that T
is a [-regular Sorgenfrey abelian paratopological group and the class of
first countable topological SIN-groups is T [ stable, closed-hereditary and
contains H[. Now to finish the proof apply Theorem 2.
Next, we apply Theorems 1 and 2 to the class TBG (resp. FCTBG)
of (first countable) totally bounded topological groups. We remind that
a paratopological group G is totally bounded if for any neighborhood U
of the unit in G there is a finite subset F ⊂ G with UF = FU = G. It is
known that each totally bounded paratopological group is saturated and
a saturated paratopological group G is totally bounded if and only if its
group reflexion G[ is totally bounded, see [Ra2], [BR1]. An example of a
[-regular totally bounded Sorgenfrey paratopological group is the circle
T = {z ∈ C : |z| = 1} endowed with the Sorgenfrey topology generated
by the base consisting of half-intervals {z ∈ T : a ≤ Arg(z) < b} where
0 ≤ a < b ≤ 2π.
We define a paratopological group G to be Bohr separated (resp.
Bohr regular, fcBohr regular) if it is TBG-separated (resp. TBG-regular,
FCTBG-regular). In this terminology Theorem 1 implies
Corollary 5. A paratopological group H is Bohr separated if and only if
H is a ([-closed) subgroup of a totally bounded paratopological group.
It is interesting to compare Corollary 5 with another characterizing
theorem supplying us with many pathological examples of pseudocom-
pact paratopological groups. We remind that a topological space X is
pseudocompact if each locally finite family of non-empty open subsets of
X is finite. It should be mentioned that a Tychonoff space X is pseu-
docompact if and only if each continuous real-valued function on X is
bounded.
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Theorem 3. An abelian paratopological group H is Bohr separated if and
only if H is a subgroup of a pseudocompact abelian paratopological group
G with χ(G) = χ(H).
The following characterization of fcBohr regular paratopological gro-
ups follows from Theorem 2 applied to the class G = FCTBG and the
quotient group T = Q/Z endowed with the standard Sorgenfrey topology.
Corollary 6. A paratopological group H is fcBohr regular if and only if
H is a [-closed subgroup of a regular totally bounded paratopological group
G with ℵ0 = χ(G[) ≤ χ(G) = χ(H) and |G/H| ≤ ℵ0.
In some cases the fcBohr (= FCTBG) regularity is equivalent to the
Bohr (= TBG) regularity. We recall that a topological space X has
countable pseudocharacter if each one point subset of X is a Gδ-subset.
Proposition 2. A Bohr regular paratopological group H is fcBohr regular
provided one of the following conditions is satisfied:
1. H is a kω-space with countable pseudocharacter;
2. H is first countable and Lindelöf.
Proof. Using the Bohr regularity of H, find a regular bijective continuous
homomorphism h : H → K onto a totally bounded topological group K.
Denote by eH and eK the units of the groups H, K, respectively.
1. First assume that H is a kω-space with countable pseudo-character.
In this case the set H \ {eH} is σ-compact as well as its image h(H \
{eH}) = K\{eK}. It follows that the totally bounded group K has count-
able pseudo-character. Now it is standard to find a bijective continuous
homomorphism i : K → G of K onto a first countable totally bounded
topological group G, see [Tk, 4.5]. Since the composition f ◦ h : H → G
is bijective, the group H is FCTBG-separated and by Proposition 1 is
fcBohr regular.
2. Next assume that H is first-countable and Lindelöf. Fix a sequence
(Un)n∈ω of open subsets of H forming a neighborhood base at eH . For
every n ∈ ω fix a closed neighborhood Wn ⊂ Un whose image h(Wn) is
closed in K. Let us call an open subset U ⊂ K cylindrical if U = f−1(V )
for some continuous homomorphism f : K → G into a first countable
compact topological group G and some open set V ⊂ G. It follows from
the total boundedness of K that open cylindrical subsets form a base of
the topology of the group K, see [Tk, 3.4].
Using the Lindelöf property of the set f(H \ Un), for every n ∈ ω
find a countable cover Un of f(H \ Un) by open cylindrical subsets such
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that ∪Un ∩ h(Wn) = ∅. Then U =
⋃
n∈ω Un is a countable collection of
open cylindrical subsets and we can produce a continuous homomorphism
f : K → G onto a first countable totally bounded topological group such
that each set U ∈ U is the preimage U = f−1(V ) of some open set
V ⊂ K. To finish the proof it rests to observe that the composition
f ◦ h : H → G is a regular bijection of H onto a first countable totally
bounded topological group.
It can be shown that the character of any non-locally compact parato-
pological kω-group with countable pseudo-character is equal to the small
cardinal d, well-known in the Modern Set Theory, see [JW], [Va]. By
definition, d is equal to the cofinality of Nω endowed with the natural
partial order: (xi)i∈ω ≤ (yi)i∈ω iff xi ≤ yi for all i. More precisely, d is
equal to the smallest size of a subset C ⊂ Nω cofinal in the sense that for
any x ∈ Nω there is y ∈ C with y ≥ x. It is easy to see that ℵ1 ≤ d ≤ c.
The Martin Axiom implies d = c. On the other hand, there are models
of ZFC with d < c, see [Va].
We shall apply Corollary 6 to construct examples of paratopological
groups whose character exceed their π-weight as well as the character of
their group reflexions. We recall that the π-weight πw(X) of a topolog-
ical space X is the smallest size of a π-base, i.e., a collection B of open
nonempty subsets of X such that each nonempty open subset U of X
contains an element of the family B. According to [Tk, 4.3] the π-weight
of each topological group coincides with its weight.
Corollary 7. For any uncountable cardinal κ ≤ d there is a [-regular to-
tally bounded countable abelian paratopological group G with ℵ0 = χ(G[) =
πw(G) < χ(G) = κ.
Proof. Take any non-metrizable countable abelian FCTBG-separated to-
pological kω-group (H, τ) (for example, let H be a free abelian group
over a convergent sequence, see [FT]). The group H, being FCTBG-
separated, admits a bijective continuous homomorphism h : H → K
onto a first countable totally bounded abelian topological group K. By
Proposition 1 this homomorphism is regular.
According to [FT, 22)] or [Ban], the space H contains a copy of the
Fréchet-Urysohn fan Sω and thus has character χ(H) ≥ χ(Sω) ≥ d. Using
this fact and the countability of H, by transfinite induction (over ordinals
< κ) construct a group topology σ ⊂ τ on H such that χ(H, σ) = κ and
the homomorphism h : (H, σ) → K is regular. This means that the group
(H, σ) is fcBohr regular. Now we can apply Corollary 6 to embed the
group (H, σ) into a totally bounded countable abelian paratopological
group G such that ℵ0 = χ(G[) < χ(G) = χ(H, σ) = κ. Since G is
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saturated and abelian, [-open subsets of G form a π-base which implies
πw(G) = ω(G[) = ℵ0.
Remark 1. It is interesting to compare Corollary 7 with a result of [BRZ]
asserting that there exists a [-regular countable paratopological group G
with ℵ0 = χ(G) < χ(G[) = d. Such a paratopological group G cannot
be saturated since χ(G[) ≤ χ(G) for any saturated (more generally, any
2-oscillating) paratopological group G, see [BR1].
We finish our discussion with presenting examples of regular (para)to-
pological groups which embed into totally bounded paratopological gro-
ups but fail to embed into regular totally bounded paratopological groups.
For that it suffices to find a Bohr separated group which is not Bohr
regular.
Let us remark that each locally convex linear topological space (or
more generally each locally quasi-convex abelian topological group, see
[A] or [Ba]) is Bohr regular. On the other hand, there exist (non-locally
convex) linear metric spaces which fail to be Bohr separated or Bohr
regular. The simplest example can be constructed as follows. Con-
sider the linear space C[0, 1] of continuous real-valued functions on the
closed interval [0, 1] and endow it with the invariant metrics d1/2(f, g) =
∫ 1
0
√
|f(t) − g(t)|dt, p(f, g) =
∑
n∈ω min{2−n, |f(tn)−g(tn)|} and ρ(f, g)
= d1/2(f, g) + p(f, g) where {tn : n ∈ ω} is an enumeration of ra-
tional numbers of [0, 1]. It is well-known that the linear metric space
(C[0, 1], d1/2) admits no non-zero linear continuous functional and fails
to be Bohr separated. The linear metric space (C[0, 1], ρ) is even more
interesting. We remind that an abelian group G is divisible (resp. torsion-
free) if for any a ∈ G and natural n the equation xn = a has a solution
(resp. has at most one solution) x ∈ G.
Proposition 3. The linear metric space L = (C[0, 1], ρ) is Bohr sep-
arated but fails to be Bohr regular. Moreover, L is a [-closed subgroup
of a totally bounded abelian torsion-free divisible group, but fails to be a
subgroup of a regular totally bounded paratopological group.
Proof. The Bohr separatedness of L follows from the continuity of the
maps χn : L → R, χn : f 7→ f(tn), for n ∈ ω. Let us show that the group
L fails to be Bohr regular.
For this we first prove that each linear continuous functional ψ :
(L, ρ) → R is continuous with respect to the “product” metric p. Consider
the open convex subset C = ψ−1(−1, 1) of L. By the continuity of
ψ, there are n ≥ 1 and ε > 0 such that x ∈ C for any x ∈ L with
d1/2(x, 0) < ε and |x(ti)| < ε for all i ≤ n. Let L0 = {x ∈ L : x(ti) = 0 for
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all i ≤ n} and observe that the convex set C∩L0 contains the open ε-ball
with respect to the restriction of the metric d1/2 on L0. Now the standard
argument (see [Ed, 4.16.3]) yields C ∩ L0 = L0 and L0 ⊂
⋂
k≥1
1
kC =
ψ−1(0). Hence the functional ψ factors through the quotient space L/L0
and is continuous with respect to the metric p (this follows from the
continuity of the quotient homomorphism L → L/L0 with respect to p).
If χ : L → T is any character on L (that is a continuous group homo-
morphism into the circle T = R/Z), then it is easy to find a continuous
linear functional ψ : L → R such that χ = π ◦ ψ, where π : R → T is the
quotient homomorphism. As we have already shown, the functional ψ is
continuous with respect to the metric p and so is the character χ.
Finally, we are able to prove that the group L fails to be Bohr reg-
ular. Assuming the converse we would find a continuous regular homo-
morphism h : L → H onto a totally bounded abelian topological group
H. The group H, being abelian and totally bounded, is a subgroup of
the product Tκ for some cardinal κ, see [Mo]. Then the above discus-
sion yields that h is continuous with respect to the metric p. In this
situation the regularity of h implies the regularity of the identity map
(L, ρ) → (L, p). But this map certainly is not regular: for any 2−n-ball
B = {x ∈ L : ρ(x, 0) < 2−n} its closure in the metric p contains the
linear subspace {x ∈ L : x(ti) = 0 for all i ≤ n} and thus lies in no ball.
Therefore the group L is Bohr separated but not Bohr regular.
Let G be the class of all totally bounded abelian divisible torsion-
free topological groups. The group L, being Bohr separated, abelian,
divisible, and torsion-free, is G-separated. Pick any irrational number
α ∈ T = R/Z and consider the subgroup T = {qα : q ∈ Q} of the circle
T endowed with the Sorgenfrey topology. It is clear that T is a totally
bounded ]-discrete paratopological group with T [ ∈ G. By Theorem 1,
L is a [-closed subgroup of a saturated paratopological groups G with
G[ ∈ G which implies that G is totally bounded abelian, divisible and
torsion-free.
On the other hand, L admits no embedding into a regular totally
bounded paratopological group G. Indeed, assuming that L ⊂ G is such
an embedding, apply Theorem 3 of [BR1] to conclude that the identity
homomorphism id : G → G[ is regular and so is its restriction id|L, which
would imply the Bohr regularity of L.
There is also an alternative method of constructing Bohr separated
but not Bohr regular paratopological groups, based on the concept of a
Lawson paratopological group. Following [BR1] we define a paratopo-
logical group G to be Lawson if it has a neighborhood base at the unit
consisting of subsemigroups of G. According to [BR1] there is a regular
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Lawson paratopological group failing to be [-separated. On the other
hand, there are Lawson paratopological groups which are [-regular and
Bohr separated but are not topological groups, see Example 2 [BR1] or
Example 1 below. We shall show that a [-regular paratopological group
G is a topological group provided its group reflexion G[ is topologically
periodic. We remind that a paratopological group G is topologically pe-
riodic if for each x ∈ G and a neighborhood U ⊂ G of the unit there is
a number n ≥ 1 such that xn ∈ U , see [BG]. It is easy to show that
each totally bounded topological group is topologically periodic. For
paratopological groups it is not true: according to Theorem 2 there is
a [-regular totally bounded paratopological group G which contains the
discrete group Z of integers and thus cannot be topologically periodic.
The class of topologically periodic topological groups will be denoted by
TPTG.
Proposition 4. Each TPTG-regular Lawson paratopological group is a
topological group.
Proof. Let (G, τ) be a Lawson paratopological group and σ ⊂ τ be a
topology turning G into a topologically periodic topological group such
that (G, τ) has a base B at the unit consisting of subsemigroups, closed
in the topology σ. We are going to show that an arbitrary element U ∈ B
is in fact a subgroup of G. For this purpose suppose that there exists an
element x ∈ U−1\U . Then x−1 ∈ U and xm ∈ U for all m < 0 because
U is a subsemigroup of G. Since the set U is closed in the topology σ,
there exists a neighborhood V ∈ σ of unit such that xV ∩ U = ∅. By
the topological periodicity of (G, σ), there exists a number n < −1 with
xn ⊂ V . Then xn+1 ∩ U = ∅ which is a contradiction.
Since each totally bounded topological group is topologically periodic
this Proposition implies
Corollary 8. Each Bohr regular Lawson paratopological group is a topo-
logical group.
On the other hand, abelian Lawson paratopological groups are Bohr
separated.
Proposition 5. Each abelian Lawson paratopological group is Bohr sep-
arated.
Proof. Let G be such the group. Then G[ has a neighborhood base B
at the unit, consisting of subgroups. For every group H ∈ B the group
G/H, being abelian and discrete, is Bohr separated [Mo]. Since the family
{G → G/H : H ∈ B} of quotient maps separates the points of the group
G, the group G is Bohr separated too.
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Corollary 8 and Proposition 5 allow us to construct simple examples
of Bohr separated Lawson paratopological groups which are not Bohr
regular.
Example 1. There is a countable [-regular saturated Lawson paratopo-
logical abelian group H which is Bohr separated but not Bohr regular.
The group H has the following properties:
1. H is a [-closed subgroup of a countable first-countable abelian to-
tally bounded paratopological group;
2. H is a [-closed subgroup of a first-countable abelian pseudocompact
paratopological group;
3. H fails to be a subgroup of a regular totally bounded (or pseudo-
compact) paratopological group.
Proof. Consider the direct sum Zω
0 = {(xi)i∈ω ∈ Zω : xi = 0 for all
but finitely many indices i} of countably many copies of the group Z of
integers. Endow the group Zω
0 with a shift invariant topology τ whose
neighborhood base at the origin consists of the sets Un = {0}∪
⋃
m≥n Wm
where Wm = {(xi)i∈ω ∈ Zω
0 : xi = 0 for all i < m and xm > 0} for m ≥ 0.
It is easy to see that H = (Zω
0 , τ) is a [-regular countable first-countable
saturated Lawson paratopological group which is not a topological group.
By Proposition 5 and Corollary 8 the group H is Bohr separated but not
Bohr regular.
By Theorem 1, H is a [-closed subgroup of a first-countable totally
bounded countable paratopological group and by Theorem 3, H is a [-
closed subgroup of a first-countable abelian pseudocompact paratopolog-
ical group.
Assuming that H is a subgroup of a regular totally bounded or pseu-
docompact paratopological group G and applying Theorem 3 of [BR1]
and [RR] we would get that both G and H are Bohr regular which is
impossible.
In the proofs of our principal results we shall often exploit the follow-
ing characterization of semigroup topologies on groups from [Ra1, 1.1].
Lemma 1. A family B of subsets containing a unit e of a group G is a
neighborhood base at e of some semigroup topology τ on G if and only if
B satisfies the following four Pontryagin conditions:
1. (∀U, V ∈ B)(∃W ∈ B) : W ⊂ U ∩ V ;
2. (∀U ∈ B)(∃V ∈ B) : V 2 ⊂ U ;
3. (∀U ∈ B)(∀x ∈ U)(∃V ∈ B) : xV ⊂ U ;
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4. (∀U ∈ B)(∀x ∈ G)(∃V ∈ B) : x−1V x ⊂ U .
The topology τ is Hausdorff if and only if
5.
⋂
{UU−1 : U ∈ B} = {e}.
1. Proof of Theorem 1
The necessity is evident. We shall prove the sufficiency. Let (H, τ) be a G-
separated paratopological group, where G is T [-stable class of topological
groups. Since the group H is G-separated, there exists a group topology
σ on the group H such that (H, σ) ∈ G. We shall define the topology on
the product G = H × T as follows. Let Bτ , Bσ and BT be open bases
at the unit of the groups (H, τ), (H, σ) and T respectively. For arbitrary
neighborhoods Uτ ∈ Bτ , Uσ ∈ Bσ and UT ∈ BT with Uτ ⊂ Uσ put
[Uτ , Uσ, UT ] = Uτ ×{eT }∪Uσ×(UT \{eT }), where eH and eT are the units
of the groups H and T respectively. The family of all such [Uτ , Uσ, UT ]
will be denoted by B. Now we verify the Pontryagin conditions for the
family B.
The Condition 1 is trivial.
To check Condition 2 consider an arbitrary set [Uτ , Uσ, UT ] ∈ B.
There exist neighborhoods Vτ ∈ Bτ , Vσ ∈ Bσ such that V 2
τ ⊂ Uτ ,
V 2
σ ⊂ Uσ and Vτ ⊂ Vσ. Since the group T# is discrete then there
is a neighborhood VT ⊂ BT such that (VT \{eT })
2 ⊂ UT \{eT }. Then
[Vτ , Vσ, VT ]2 ⊂ [Uτ , Uσ, UT ].
To verify Condition 3 consider an arbitrary point x ∈ [Uτ , Uσ, UT ] ∈
B. If x = (xH , eT ), where xH ∈ Uτ then there exist neighborhoods
Vτ ∈ Bτ , Vσ ∈ Bσ such that Vτ ⊂ Vσ, xHVτ ⊂ Uτ and xHVσ ⊂ Uσ.
Then x[Vτ , Vσ, UT ] ⊂ [Uτ , Uσ, UT ]. If x = (xH , xT ), where xH ∈ Uσ and
xT ∈ UT \{eT } then there exist neighborhoods Vτ ∈ Bτ , Vσ ∈ Bσ and
VT ∈ BT such that Vτ ⊂ Vσ, xHVσ ⊂ Uσ and xT VT ⊂ UT \{eT }. Then
x[Vτ , Vσ, VT ] ⊂ [Uτ , Uσ, UT ].
Condition 4. Let x = (xH , xT ) ⊂ H × T be an arbitrary point. Then
there are neighborhoods Vτ ∈ Bτ , Vσ ∈ Bσ and VT ∈ BT such that
Vτ ⊂ Vσ, x−1
H VτxH ⊂ Uτ , x−1
H VσxH ⊂ Uσ and x−1
T VT xT ⊂ UT . Then
x−1[Vτ , Vσ, VT ]x ⊂ [Uτ , Uσ, UT ].
Hence the family B is a base of a semigroup topology on the group
G. Denote this semigroup topology by ρ. The inclusion
⋂
{[Uτ , Uσ, UT ] ·
[Uτ , Uσ, UT ]−1 : Uτ ∈ Bτ , Uσ ∈ Bσ, UT ∈ BT } ⊂ {UσU−1
σ × UT U−1
T : Uσ ∈
Bσ, UT ∈ BT } = {(eH , eT )} implies that the topology ρ is Hausdorff.
Since the groups T and (H, σ) are saturated and the group T is nondis-
crete, the group (G, ρ) is saturated too. According to [BR1, Proposition
3] the base at the unit of the topology ρ[ consists of the sets UU−1, where
U ∈ B. Thus the topology ρ[ coincides with the product topology of the
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groups (H, σ) × T [ and hence (G, ρ[) ∈ G and H is a [-closed subgroup
of the group G.
2. Proof of Theorem 2
The “if” part of Theorem 2 is trivial. To prove the “only if” part, suppose
that T and (H, τ) are paratopological groups with the units eT and eH ,
satisfying the hypothesis of Theorem 2.
Using the Sorgenfrey property of the group T , choose an open in-
variant neighborhood U0 of the unit eT such that for any neighborhood
U ⊂ T of eT there is a neighborhood U ′ ⊂ T of eT such that x, y ∈ U
for any elements x, y ∈ U0 with xy ∈ U ′. By induction we can build a
sequence {Un : n ∈ ω} of invariant open neighborhoods of eT satisfying
the following conditions:
(1) {Un : n ∈ ω} is a neighborhood base at the unit eT of the group T ;
(2) U2
n+1 ⊂ Un for every n ∈ ω;
(3) for every n ∈ ω and any points x, y ∈ U0 the inclusion xy ∈ Un+1
implies x, y ∈ Un;
(4) Un
[
$ Un−1 for every n ∈ ω, where Un
[
denotes the closure of the
set Un in the topology of T [.
Remark that the condition (3) yields
(5) (U0\Un)U0 ∩Un+1 = ∅ and hence U0\Un ∩Un+1U
−1
0 = ∅ for all n.
Since the group T is saturated, we can apply Proposition 3 of [BR1] to
conclude that the set Un+2U
−1
0 is a neighborhood of the unit in T [. Then
the set Un+2Un+2U
−1
0 ⊂ Un+1U
−1
0 is a neighborhood of Un+2 in T [. This
observation together with (5) yields
(6) U0\Un
[
∩ Un+2 = ∅ for all n.
It follows from our assumptions on (H, τ) that there exists a group
topology σ ⊂ τ on H such that the group (H, σ) belongs to the class G
and (H, τ) has a neighborhood base Bτ at the unit eH consisting of sets,
closed in the topology σ. By induction we can build a base {Vn : n ∈ ω}
of open symmetric invariant neighborhoods of eH in the topology σ such
that V 2
n+1 ⊂ Vn for every n ∈ ω.
Consider the product H × T and identify H with the subgroup H ×
{eT } of H × T . It rests to define a topology on H × T . At first we
shall introduce an auxiliary sequence {Wn} of “neighborhoods” of (eH , eT )
satisfying the Pontryagin Conditions 1,2, and 4. For every n ∈ ω let
Wn = {(eH , eT )} ∪
⋃
i>2n
Vni × (Ui−1 \ Ui) (*)
and observe that Wn+1 ⊂ Wn for all n. Let us verify the Pontryagin
Conditions 1,2,4 for the sequence (Wn).
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To verify Conditions 1 and 2 it suffices to show that W 2
n ⊂ Wn−1
for all n ≥ 1. Fix any elements (x, t), (x′, t′) ∈ Wn. We have to show
that (xx′, tt′) ∈ Wn−1. Without loss of generality, we can assume that
t, t′ 6= eT . In this case we may find numbers i, i′ > 2n with (x, t) ∈
Vni × (Ui−1\Ui) and (x′, t′) ∈ Vni′ × (Ui′−1\Ui′). For j = min{i, i′} the
Conditions (2), (5) imply
(xx′, tt′) ∈ Vnj−1 × (Uj−2\Uj+1) ⊂
j+1
⋃
k=j−1
V(n−1)k × (Uk−1\Uk) ⊂
⋃
k>2(n−1)
V(n−1)k × (Uk−1\Uk) ⊂ Wn−1.
Taking into account that both the sequences {Un} and {Vn} consist
of invariant neighborhoods, we conclude that the sets Wn are invariant
as well. Hence the Condition 4 holds too.
Now, using the sequence (Wn) we shall produce a sequence (On) sat-
isfying all the Pontryagin Conditions 1–5. For every n ∈ ω put On =
⋃∞
i=n WnWn+1 · · ·Wi. Thus Wn ⊃ On+1 ⊃ Wn+1 and On ∩ H × {eT } =
{(eH , eT )} for all n. It is easy to see that the sequence {On} consists of
invariant sets and satisfies Pontryagin conditions 1–4. Hence the family
{On} is a neighborhood base at the unit of some (not necessarily Haus-
dorff) topology τ ′ on G = H × T turning G into a paratopological SIN-
group. Applying Proposition 1.3 from [Ra1] we conclude that the family
Bρ = {OU : O ∈ Bτ ′ , U ∈ Bτ} is a neighborhood base at the unit of some
(not necessarily Hausdorff) semigroup topology ρ on G (here we identify
H with the subgroup H × {eT } in G). Since the topology ρ is stronger
than the product topology π of the group (H, σ) × T [, the topology ρ is
Hausdorff and H is a [-closed subgroup of the group (G, ρ). It follows
from the construction of the topology ρ that ρ|H = τ , χ(G, ρ) = χ(H)
and |G/H| = |T |.
At the end of the proof we show that the paratopological group (G, ρ)
is saturated and [-regular. To show that the group (G, ρ) is saturated
it suffices to find for every n ≥ 1 nonempty open sets V ⊂ (H, σ) and
U ⊂ T such that V × U−1 ⊂ Wn. Taking into account that the group
T is saturated and the set U3n−1\U3n
[
is nonempty, find a nonempty
open set U ⊂ T such that U−1 ⊂ U3n−1\U3n
[
. Then V −1
3n2 × U−1 ⊂
V3n2×(U3n−1\U3n) ⊂ Wn. This implies that the group (G, ρ) is saturated
and (G, ρ[) = (H, σ) × T [ ∈ G.
The [-regularity of the group (G, ρ) will follow as soon as we prove
that WnV
π
⊂ Wn−1V for every n ≥ 2 and V ∈ Bτ . Indeed, in this case,
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we shall get
On+1V
[
⊂ On+1V
π
⊂ WnV
π
⊂ Wn−1V ⊂ On−1V.
Fix any x ∈ WnV
π
. If x ∈ V ×{eT }, then x ∈ Wn−1V . Next, assume
that x /∈ H×{eT }. The property (4) of the sequence (Uk) implies that the
point x has a π-neighborhood meeting only finitely many sets H × Ui,
i ∈ ω. This observation together with x ∈ WnV
π
and (?) imply that
x ∈ VniV × (Ui−1 \ Ui)
[
for some i > 2n. The condition (6) implies that
the following chain of inclusions holds:
x ∈ VniV × (Ui−1 \ Ui)
[
⊂ VniV
σ
× (Ui−1 \ Ui)
[
⊂
V 2
niV × (Ui−2 \ Ui+2) ⊂
i+2
⋃
j=i−1
Vni−1V × (Uj−1 \ Uj) ⊂
⋃
j>2n−2
V(n−1)jV × (Uj−1 \ Uj) ⊂ Wn−1V.
Finally, assume that x ∈ H \ V = (H \ V ) × {eT }. Since the set V
is [-closed in H, there is m ∈ ω such that V −1
m Vmx ∩ V = ∅ and thus
Vmx ∩ ViV = ∅ for all i ≥ m. The inclusion x ∈ WnV
π
and (?) imply
(Vm × UmU−1
m )x ∩ (VniV × (Ui−1 \ Ui)) 6= ∅
for some i > 2n. Then Vmx ∩ VniV 6= ∅ and UmU−1
m ∩ (Ui−1 \ Ui) 6= ∅.
In view of Property (5) of the sequence (Uk), the latter relation implies
m ≤ i. On the other hand, the former relation together with the choice of
the number m yields ni < m ≤ i which is impossible. This contradiction
finishes the proof of the inclusion WnV
π
⊂ Wn−1V .
3. Proof of Theorem 3
Given a topological space (X, τ) Stone [Sto] and Katetov [Kat] considered
the topology τr on X generated by the base consisting of all canonically
open sets of the space (X, τ). This topology is called the regularization
of the topology τ . If (X, τ) is Hausdorff then (X, τr) is regular and if
(X, τ) is a paratopological group then (X, τr) is a paratopological group
too [Ra2, Ex.1.9]. If (G, τ) is a paratopological group then τr is the
strongest regular semigroup topology on the group G which is weaker
than τ ; moreover, for any neighborhood base B at the unit of the group
(G, τ) the family Br = {intU : U ∈ B} is a base at the unit of the
group (G, τr) [Ra3, p.31–32]. The following proposition is quite easy and
probably is known.
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Proposition 6. Let (X, τ) be a topological space. Then (X, τ) is pseu-
docompact if and only if the regularization (X, τr) is pseudocompact.
For the proof of Theorem 3 we shall need a special pseudocompact
functionally Hausdorff semigroup topology on the unit circle. We recall
that a topological space X is functionally Hausdorff if continuous func-
tions separate points of X.
Proposition 7. There is a functionally Hausdorff pseudocompact first
countable semigroup topology θ on the unit circle T which is not a group
topology.
Proof. Let T be the unit circle and χ : T → Q be a (discontinuous) group
homomorphism onto the groups of rational numbers. Fix any element
x0 ∈ T with χ(x0) = 1 and observe that S = {1} ∪ {x ∈ T : χ(x) > 0}
is a subsemigroup of T. Let θ be the weakest semigroup topology on T
containing the standard compact topology τ and such that S is open in
θ. It is easy to see that θ is functionally Hausdorff and the sets S ∩ U ,
where 1 ∈ U ∈ τ , form a neighborhood base of the topology θ at the unit
of T.
By Proposition 6, to show that the group (T, θ) is pseudocompact it
suffices to verify that θr = τ . Since τ is a regular semigroup topology on
the group T weaker than θ, we get θr ⊃ τ . To verify the inverse inclusion
we first show that U
τ
= U
θ
for any U ∈ θ. Since τ ⊂ θ it suffices
to show that U
τ
⊂ U
θ
. Fix any point x ∈ U
τ
and a neighborhood
V ∈ τ of 1. We have to show that x(V ∩ S) ∩ U 6= ∅. Pick up any
point y ∈ xV ∩ U . Since U is open in the topology θ, we can find a
neighborhood W ∈ τ of 1 such that y(W ∩S) ⊂ xV ∩U . Find a number
N such that χ(yxN
0 ) > χ(x) and thus yxn
0 ∈ xS for all n ≥ N (we recall
that x0 is an element of T with χ(x0) = 1). Moreover, since x0 is non-
periodic in T, there exists a number n ≥ N such that xn
0 ⊂ W . Then
yxn
0 ∈ (yS ∩ yW ) ∩ xS ⊂ (xV ∩ U) ∩ xS = x(V ∩ S) ∩ U . Hence x ∈ U
θ
and U
θ
= U
τ
.
Then
intθ U
θ
= T\T\U
θ
θ
= T\T\U
θ
τ
∈ τ
which just yields θr ⊂ τ .
Now we are able to present a proof of Theorem 3. The “if” part follows
from the observation that for any Hausdorff pseudocompact paratopolog-
ical group (G, τ) its group reflexion G[ = (G, τr) is a Hausdorff pseudo-
compact (and hence totally bounded) topological group [RR].
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To prove the “only if” part, fix a Bohr-separated abelian paratopolog-
ical group (H, τ) and let Bτ be a neighborhood base at the unit of the
group (H, τ). It follows that there is a group topology σ′ ⊂ τ on H such
that (H, σ′) is totally bounded. Let (Ĥ, σ) be the Raikov completion of
the group (H, σ′). It is clear that Ĥ is a compact abelian group and H is
a normal dense subgroup of Ĥ. It follows that Bτ is a neighborhood base
at the unit of some semigroup topology τ ′ on the group Ĥ with τ ′|H = τ .
Let (T, θ) be the group from Proposition 7.
We shall define the topology on the product G = Ĥ × T as follows.
Let Bτ , Bσ and Bθ be the open neighborhood bases at the unit of the
groups (H, τ), (Ĥ, σ) and (T, θ) respectively. For arbitrary neighborhoods
Uτ ∈ Bτ , Uσ ∈ Bσ and Uθ ∈ Bθ with Uτ ⊂ Uσ let [Uτ , Uσ, Uθ] = Uτ ×
{eT} ∪ Uσ × (Uθ\{eT}), where eH and eT are the units of the groups
H and T respectively. Denote by B the family of all such [Uτ , Uσ, Uθ].
Repeating the argument of Theorem 1 check that the family B is a base
of some Hausdorff semigroup topology ρ on G. By π denote the topology
of the product (Ĥ, σ)× (T, θr). By Proposition 6 to show that the group
(G, ρ) is pseudocompact it suffice to verify that ρr ⊂ π. For this we
shall show that U
ρ
⊃ Uσ × U θ
θ
for every U = [Uτ , Uσ, Uθ] ∈ B. Let
(xĤ , xT) ∈ Uσ × U θ
θ
and V = [Vτ , Vσ, Vθ] ∈ B. It suffice to show that
(
(xĤ , xT) + Vσ × (Vθ\{eT})
)
∩ Uσ × (Uθ\{eT}) 6= ∅. This intersection
is nonempty if and only if the intersections (xĤ + Vσ) ∩ Uσ and (xT +
(Vθ\{eT}))∩ (Uθ\{eT}) are nonempty. The first intersection is nonempty
since xĤ ∈ Uσ and the second is nonempty since xT ∈ U θ
θ
and the
topology θ is non-discrete.
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Contact information
T. Banakh Instytut Matematyki, Akademia
Świȩtokrzyska in Kielce, Świȩtokrzyska
15, Kielce, 25406, Poland
and
Department of Mathematics, Ivan Franko
Lviv National University, Universytetska, 1
Lviv 79000, Ukraine
E-Mail: tbanakh@franko.lviv.ua
S. Ravsky Department of Mathematics, Ivan Franko
Lviv National University, Universytetska, 1
Lviv 79000, Ukraine
E-Mail: oravsky@mail.ru
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