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An example of a polish group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Maciej Malicki
Maciej Malicki*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mathematics, 1409 W.Green ST, IL 61801. USA, E-mail: mamalicki@gmail.com
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Abstract

We construct a non-discrete Polish group none of whose non-discrete subgroups admits a complete left-invariant metric.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 1173 - 1178
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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