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Automatic Continuity of Group Homomorphisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Christian Rosendal
Christian Rosendal*
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Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St. Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USAE-mail: [email protected], URL: http://www.math.uic.edu/~rosendal
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Abstract

We survey various aspects of the problem of automatic continuity of homomorphisms between Polish groups.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 184 - 214
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2009

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