Spectral representations of topological groups and near-openly generated groups

Abstract

Near-openly generated groups are introduced. It is a topological and multiplicative subclass of $\mathbb R$-factorizable groups. Dense and open subgroups, quotients and Raikov completion of a near-openly generated group are near-openly generated. Almost connected pro-Lie groups, lindel\" off almost metrizable groups and the spaces $C_p(X)$ of all continuous real-valued functions on a Tychonoff space $X$ with pointwise convergence topology are near-openly generated. We provide characterizations of near-openly generated groups using methods of inverse spectra and topological game theory.