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For a topological group $X$ by $Aut(X)$ denote the group of topological isomorphisms $h:X\to X$. If $X$ is compact then the compact-open topology turns $Aut(X)$ into an $\omega$-narrow topological group.

We recall that a topological group $X$ is $\omega$-narrow if for any non-empty open set $U\subset X$ of there exists a countable set $A\subset X$ such that $X=AU$.

Problem. Does the automorphism group $Aut(X)$ of an $\omega$-narrow topological group $X$ admit a topology $\tau$ turning $Aut(X)$ into an $\omega$-narrow topological group such that each compact subset $K\subset(Aut(X),\tau)$ is equicontinuous in the sense that for every neighborhood $U\subset X$ of the unit there exists a neighborhood $V\subset X$ of the unit such that $f(V)\subset U$ for all $f\in K$?

Remark. It seems that for any topological group $X$ the automorphism group $Aut(X)$ admits an $\omega$-narrow group topology: just identify $Aut(X)$ with a subgroup of the homeomorphism group $Homeo(\beta X)$ of the Stone-Cech compactification of $X$. Unfortunatley this topologization does not satisfy the equicontinuity condition.

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  • $\begingroup$ Do you require that the action of $(Aut(X),\tau)$ on $X$ is continuous? $\endgroup$
    – YCor
    Commented Jun 7, 2017 at 14:13
  • $\begingroup$ @YCor Yes, the action should be continuous. Actually, I needed this result for proving something else. At the moment I have found an alternative proof and do not urgently need the answer to this question. But maybe it will be helpful for something else. $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 8, 2017 at 8:52

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