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Suitable sets in linearly orderable topological groups

Determine whether every linearly orderable topological group admits a suitable set, and in particular whether it admits a closed suitable set.

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Background

A linearly orderable topological group is a group whose topology is the order topology induced by a linear order compatible with the group structure. The existence of suitable sets in such groups has been a long-standing question.

The paper provides partial answers and related results, including metrizability criteria and consequences for suitable sets under additional hypotheses (e.g., having an ωω-base).

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In this paper, we mainly consider the following three open problems, which were posed more than twenty years ago. We shall give some partial answers to Problems~\ref{pr0} and~\ref{pr1}, and an affirmative answer to Problem~\ref{pr6}. Does every linearly orderable topological group have a (closed) suitable set?

Suitable sets for topological groups revisited (2508.13443 - Lin et al., 19 Aug 2025) in Problem 1.5 (Tkachenko 1997), Section 1 (Introduction)