Chain conditions on subgroups of LCA groups

Abstract

In this paper, we study ace (ascending chain condition) and dec (descending chain condition) on different types of subgroups of LCA (locally compact abelian) groups, such as open subgroups, compact subgroups, discrete subgroups, metrizable subgroups, closed divisible subgroups, proper dense subgroups. We characterize compactly generated LCA groups as the class of LCA groups whose open subgroups satisfy ace; the compactly cogenerated groups as the class of LCA groups whose discrete subgroups satisfy dec. We also show that ace and dec on the following classes of subgroups are pairwise equivalent: (a) closed subgroups (b) closed totally disconnected subgroups (c) closed (7-compact subgroups (d) closed metrizable subgroups. We also obtain a characterizati on of those LCA groups which contain no proper dense subgroups.