Characterizations of groups generated by Kronecker sets

András Biró

doi:10.5802/jtnb.603

András Biró ¹

¹ A. Rényi Institute of Mathematics Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1053 Budapest, Reáltanoda u. 13-15., Hungary

Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 19 (2007) no. 3, pp. 567-582.

Abstract
Résumé

In recent years, starting with the paper [B-D-S], we have investigated the possibility of characterizing countable subgroups of the torus $T = R / Z$ by subsets of $Z$ . Here we consider new types of subgroups: let $K \subseteq T$ be a Kronecker set (a compact set on which every continuous function $f : K \to T$ can be uniformly approximated by characters of $T$ ), and $G$ the group generated by $K$ . We prove (Theorem 1) that $G$ can be characterized by a subset of $Z^{2}$ (instead of a subset of $Z$ ). If $K$ is finite, Theorem 1 implies our earlier result in [B-S]. We also prove (Theorem 2) that if $K$ is uncountable, then $G$ cannot be characterized by a subset of $Z$ (or an integer sequence) in the sense of [B-D-S].

Ces dernières années, depuis l’article [B-D-S], nous avons étudié la possibilité de caratériser les sous-groupes dénombrables du tore $T = R / Z$ par des sous-ensembles de $Z$ . Nous considérons ici de nouveaux types de sous-groupes : soit $K \subseteq T$ un ensemble de Kronecker (un ensemble compact sur lequel toute fonction continue $f : K \to T$ peut être approchée uniformément par des caractéres de $T$ ) et $G$ le groupe engendré par $K$ . Nous prouvons (théorème 1) que $G$ peut être caractérisé par un sous-ensemble de $Z^{2}$ (au lieu d’un sous-ensemble de $Z$ ). Si $K$ est fini, le théorème 1 implique notre résultat antérieur de [B-S]. Nous montrons également (théorème 2) que si $K$ est dénombrable alors $G$ ne peut pas être caractérisé par un sous-ensemble de $Z$ (ou une suite d’entiers) au sens de [B-D-S].

MR: 2388789 | Zbl: 1159.11022

DOI: 10.5802/jtnb.603

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András Biró ¹

¹ A. Rényi Institute of Mathematics Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1053 Budapest, Reáltanoda u. 13-15., Hungary

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András Biró. Characterizations of groups generated by Kronecker sets. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 19 (2007) no. 3, pp. 567-582. doi : 10.5802/jtnb.603. https://jtnb.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/jtnb.603/

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