Duality and Baire like properties in topological abelian groups

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This article investigates the duality of abelian topological groups by delving into the interplay between the algebraic and topological properties of a group G and those of its dual group. In particular, extending the notion of a g-barrelled group, we introduce and study the classes of κ-barrelled and ω-barrelled groups. Our first main result establishes that every ω-barrelled group is ℵ₀-barrelled (i.e., if every weakly convergent sequence in the dual group is equicontinuous, then every metrizable weakly compact subset of the dual group is also equicontinuous). From this, we deduce that the free topological abelian group A(K) over a metrizable compact space K is determined by the subgroup generated by any of its dense subsets. Furthermore, we prove that if G is a σ-compact, ω-barrelled group, then its dual group Ĝ_κ equipped with the compact-open topology is sequentially complete (complete if G is hemicompact). We also solve an open question posed by Trigos-Arrieta by constructing an explicit example of an ω-barrelled metrizable group that fails to be g-barrelled. Finally, we investigate the dualization of groups lacking infinite compact subsets, proving that for a totally bounded abelian group G, every compact subset of G is finite if and only if its dual group Ĝ, endowed with the finite-open topology, is unordered Baire-like.

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@misc{ferrer2026duality,
  title = {{Duality and Baire like properties in topological abelian groups}},
  author = {María V. Ferrer and Salvador Hernández and Isabel Sepúlveda},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.14074},
  eprint = {2609.14074},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14074},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Duality and Baire like properties in topological abelian groups
AU  - María V. Ferrer
AU  - Salvador Hernández
AU  - Isabel Sepúlveda
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/29
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.14074
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14074
AB  - This article investigates the duality of abelian topological groups by delving into the interplay between the algebraic and topological properties of a group G and those of its dual group. In particular, extending the notion of a g-barrelled group, we introduce and study the classes of κ-barrelled and ω-barrelled groups. Our first main result establishes that every ω-barrelled group is ℵ_0-barrelled (i.e., if every weakly convergent sequence in the dual group is equicontinuous, then every metrizable weakly compact subset of the dual group is also equicontinuous). From this, we deduce that the free topological abelian group A(K) over a metrizable compact space K is determined by the subgroup generated by any of its dense subsets. Furthermore, we prove that if G is a σ-compact, ω-barrelled group, then its dual group Ĝ_κ equipped with the compact-open topology is sequentially complete (complete if G is hemicompact). We also solve an open question posed by Trigos-Arrieta by constructing an explicit example of an ω-barrelled metrizable group that fails to be g-barrelled. Finally, we investigate the dualization of groups lacking infinite compact subsets, proving that for a totally bounded abelian group G, every compact subset of G is finite if and only if its dual group Ĝ, endowed with the finite-open topology, is unordered Baire-like.
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