Sequential completeness of quotient groups

Abstract

We discuss various generalisations of countable compactness for topological groups that are related to completeness. The sequentially complete groups form a class closed with respect to taking direct products and closed subgroups. Surprisingly, the stronger version of sequential completeness calledsequential h-completeness(all continuous homomorphic images are sequentially complete) implies pseudocompactness in the presence of good algebraic properties such as nilpotency. We also study quotients of sequentially complete groups and find several classes ofsequentially q-completegroups (all quotients are sequentially complete). Finally, we show that the pseudocompact sequentially complete groups are far from being sequentiallyq-complete in the following sense: every pseudocompact Abelian group is a quotient of a pseudocompact Abelian sequentially complete group.