## A Dowker group.(English)Zbl 0592.22001

In this note the authors give, in ZFC, an example of a normal topological group which is not countably paracompact. This is done by applying the B(X)-construction of the first and third author [Topology Appl. 20, 279- 287 (1985; Zbl 0577.22005)] to a suitable Dowker space X. The main difficulty is to assure that the semitopological group B(X), which is a Dowker space if all finite powers of X are normal, is in fact a topological group. To this end the authors replace in M. E. Rudin’s Dowker space X the cardinals $$\omega,\omega_ 1,\omega_ 2,..$$. by a sequence of successive cardinals $$\alpha,\alpha^+,..$$. ($$\alpha\geq \omega)$$ and show (i) B(X) is a topological group for $$\alpha \geq 2^{\omega}$$ (and hence a Dowker group), (ii) B(X) is not a topological group for $$\alpha^+<2^{\omega}$$; for $$\alpha^+=2^{\omega}$$ the problem is unsolved.
Reviewer: V.Eberhardt

### MSC:

 22A05 Structure of general topological groups 54G20 Counterexamples in general topology 54D20 Noncompact covering properties (paracompact, Lindelöf, etc.) 54D15 Higher separation axioms (completely regular, normal, perfectly or collectionwise normal, etc.)

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