prodiscrete

English

Alternative forms

• pro-discrete

Etymology

From pro- +‎ discrete.

Adjective

prodiscrete (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Isomorphic to the limit of a filtered projective system of discrete groups.
   • 2015, Maria Vincenta Ferrer, Salvador Hernández, Dmitri Shakhmatov, “A countable free closed non-reflexive subgroup of Z^c”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Since G can be viewed as a closed subgroup of the Tychonoff product of continuum many copies of the integers Z, this provides an example of a group described in the title, thereby answering Problem 11 from J.Galindo, L.Recorder-N\'{u}\~{n}ez, M.Tkachenko, Reflexivity of '''prodiscrete''' topological groups, J.