Chaos in Topological Modules

Abstract

Chaotic and pathological phenomena in topological modules are studied in this manuscript. In particular, constructions of noncontinuous linear functionals are provided for a wide variety of topological modules. In addition, constructions of balanced and absorbing sets which are not neighborhoods of zero are also given in an extensive class of topological modules. Finally, we construct a linearly open set with empty interior in a large amount of topological modules. All these constructions are related to each other. Prior to developing all these results, we provide an axiomatization of the topological concept of limit by introducing the limit operators in a similar context as hull operators or closure operators are defined.