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What is an example of a torsion free discrete abelian group $G$ whose dual space $\hat{G}$ is not a path connected space? The Motivation: The motivation comes from the idempotent conjecture of ...

In this question, which we flag it as a community wiki question, we search for a big list of groups $G$ which can not be isomorphic to a structure mentioned in $i.$ for some $i \in \{1,2,\ldots,...

I am reading through a classical paper A Topology for Free Groups and Related Groups by Marshall Hall Jr. in which profinite groups are defined for the first time. There he defines on p. 129: ...

It is well known that the axioms of a ring R with unity 1 imply that the underlying group must be commutative. For if a and b are elements of R, and writing + for the group operation then applying ...