$H$-closed quasitopological groups

Abstract

An $H$-closed quasitopological group is a Hausdorff quasitopological group which is contained in each Hausdorff quasitopological group as a closed subspace. We obtained a sufficient condition for a quasitopological group to be $H$-closed, which allowed us to solve a problem by Arhangel'skii and Choban and to show that a topological group $G$ is $H$-closed in the class of quasitopological groups if and only if $G$ is Ra\v\i kov-complete. Also we present examples of non-compact quasitopological groups whose topological spaces are $H$-closed.