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Lacunarity and the Bohr topology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

KENNETH KUNEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Van Vleck Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA, e-mail: kunen@math.wisc.edu
WALTER RUDIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Van Vleck Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA, e-mail: kunen@math.wisc.edu

Abstract

If G is an abelian group, then G# denotes G equipped with the weakest topology that makes every character of G continuous. This is the Bohr topology of G. If G=ℤ, the additive group of the integers and A is a Hadamard set in ℤ, it is shown that: (i) AA has 0 as its only limit point in ℤ#; (ii) no Sidon subset of AA has a limit point in ℤ#; (iii) AA is a Λ(p) set for all p<∞. This leads to an explicit example of a set which is Λ(p) for all p<∞ and is dense in ℤ#. If f(x) is a quadratic or cubic polynomial with integer coefficients, then the closure of f(ℤ) in the Bohr compactification of ℤ is shown to have Haar measure 0. Every infinite abelian group G contains an I0 set A of the same cardinality as G such that 0 is the only limit point of AA in G#.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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