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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):

W. Herfort:
"Large Abelian Subgroups need not exist";
Talk: Universidade Campinas, Dipartimento Matematica, Campinas (invited); 2003-02-12.



English abstract:
The weight of a compact group is the minimal cardinality of basis of its topology. An example of a compact group not possessing an abelian subgroup of the same weight (infinite) is given, disproving the socalled LAS conjecture.

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