María V. Ferrer,
Salvador Hernández-Muñoz, Luis Javier Hernández-Paricio
Electronic Research Archive 2026, 34(3): 1720-1741
Published: 27 February 2026
In the category of topological Abelian groups, we consider the usual notion of extension of by and the notion of weak-split extension (when has a continuous split ). Given a weak-split extension , the topological Abelian group is homeomorphic to , but in general, need not be algebraic isomorphic to . In this paper, for two topological Abelian groups , we study the Abelian group of weak-split extensions of by modulo extension isomorphisms. We prove that can be described as the Abelian group of all possible continuous sums given in the product topological space (modulo topological isomorphism) having as a topological subgroup and as a topological quotient. We also give an alternative description of as a quotient , where are cocycles represented by certain continuous maps of the form , and similarly for the coboundaries . For two topological Abelian groups , we compare the Abelian group of -extensions with the Abelian group of standard extensions where now also denote the subjacent Abelian groups. We relate these different types of extensions using an exact sequence with six terms. Although the Bohr topology of discrete Abelian groups has been investigated by many workers, there still remain many parts that are not well understood. Here, as an application of the methods developed in the paper, new examples of nontrivial -extensions for discrete Abelian groups equipped with the Bohr topology are provided and some related open questions are also proposed.