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Keywords:
tightness; products; function spaces
Summary:
We observe the existence of a $\sigma$-compact, separable topological group $G$ and a countable topological group $H$ such that the tightness of $G$ is countable, but the tightness of $G\times H$ is equal to $\frak c$.
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