O principal objetivo desta dissertacão é estudar a produtividade da compacidade enumerável em grupos topológicos. Vários contra-exemplos foram descritos. / The main aim of this thesis is to study the productivity of coutable compactness in topological groups. Several counterexamples were described.

O principal objetivo desta dissertacão é estudar a produtividade da compacidade enumerável em grupos topológicos. Vários contra-exemplos foram descritos. / The main aim of this thesis is to study the productivity of coutable compactness in topological groups. Several counterexamples were described.

In this thesis we study descriptive-set-theoretic and measure-theoretic properties of Polish groups, with a thematic emphasis on the contrast between groups which are locally compact and those which are not. The work is divided into three major sections. In the first, working jointly with Robert Kallman, we resolve a conjecture of Gleason regarding the Polish topologization of abstract groups of homeomorphisms. We show that Gleason's conjecture is false, and its conclusion is only true when the hypotheses are considerably strengthened. Along the way we discover a new automatic continuity result for a class of functions which behave like but are distinct from functions of Baire class 1. In the second section we consider the descriptive complexity of those subsets of the permutation group S? which arise naturally from the classical Levy-Steinitz series rearrangement theorem. We show that for any conditionally convergent series of vectors in Euclidean space, the sets of permutations which make the series diverge, and diverge properly, are ?03-complete. In the last section we study the phenomenon of Haar null sets a la Christensen, and the closely related notion of openly Haar null sets. We identify and correct a minor error in the proof of Mycielski that a countable union of Haar null sets in a Polish group is Haar null. We show the openly Haar null ideal may be distinct from the Haar null ideal, which resolves an uncertainty of Solecki. We show that compact sets are always Haar null in S? and in any countable product of locally compact non-compact groups, which extends the domain of a result of Dougherty. We show that any countable product of locally compact non-compact groups decomposes into the disjoint union of a meager set and a Haar null set, which gives a partial positive answer to a question of Darji. We display a translation property in the homeomorphism group Homeo+[0,1] which is impossible in any non-trivial locally compact group. Other related results are peppered throughout.

We consider the set of all spacelike embeddings of the circle S1 into a spacetime R1 × S1 with a metric globally conformal to the Minkowski metric. We identify this set and the group of conformal isometries of this spacetime as quotients of semidirect products involving diffeomorphism groups and give a transitive action of the conformal group on the set of spacelike embeddings. We provide results showing that the group of conformal isometries is a topological group and that its action on the set of spacelike embeddings is continuous. Finally, we point out some directions for future research.

Assumindo a existência de $\\mathfrak c$ ultrafiltros seletivos dois a dois incomparáveis (segundo a ordem de Rudin-Keisler) provamos que o grupo abeliano livre de cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta com uma seqüência não trivial convergente. Sob as mesmas hipóteses, mostramos que um grupo topológico abeliano quase livre de torção $(G, +, \\tau)$ com $|G| = |\\tau| = \\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia independente de $\\tau$ que o torna um grupo topológico e caracterizamos algebricamente os grupos abelianos de não torção que têm cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ e que admitem uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta (sem seqüências não triviais convergentes). Provamos, ainda, que o grupo abeliano livre de cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo que torna seu quadrado enumeravelmente compacto e construímos um semigrupo de Wallace cujo quadrado é, também, enumeravelmente compacto. Por fim, assumindo a existência de $2^{\\mathfrak c}$ ultrafiltros seletivos, garantimos que se um grupo abeliano de não torção e cardinalidade $\\mathfrak c$ admite uma topologia de grupo enumeravelmente compacta, então o mesmo admite $2^{\\mathfrak c}$ topologias de grupo enumeravelmente compactas (duas a duas não homeomorfas). / Assuming the existence of $\\mathfrak c$ pairwise incomparable selective ultrafilters (according to the Rudin-Keisler ordering) we prove that the free abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a countably compact group topology that contains a non-trivial convergent sequence. Under the same hypothesis, we show that an abelian almost torsion-free topological group $(G, +, \\tau)$ with $|G| = |\\tau| = \\mathfrak c$ admits a group topology independent of $\\tau$ and we algebraically characterize the non-torsion abelian groups of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ which admit a countably compact group topology (without non-trivial convergent sequences). We also prove that the free abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a group topology that makes its square countably compact and we construct a Wallace\'s semigroup whose square is countably compact. Finally, assuming the existence of $2^$ selective ultrafilters, we ensure that if a non-torsion abelian group of cardinality $\\mathfrak c$ admits a countably compact group topology, then it admits $2^$ (pairwise non-homeomorphic) countably compact group topologies.

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Thesis--Princeton University. / Includes bibliographical references.