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A ZFC-example of a countably compact paratopological group which is not a topological group
Problem. Does there exist a ZFC-example of a countably compact Hausdorff paratopological group which is not a topological group?
(The problem posed 27 May 2015 by Alexander Ravsky on page 9 of Volume ...
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Can closed compacts in a topological group behave "paradoxically" with respect to unions, intersections, and one-sided translations?
Consider two closed compacts $A$ and $B$ in a topological group $\Gamma$. Let $A'$ be a left translation of $A$ and $B'$ a left translation of $B$:
$A' = aA$,
$B' = bB$.
Suppose it is known that $A'\...