We show that the subsemigroup of the product of w_1-many circles generated by
the L-space constructed by J. Moore is again an L-space. This leads to a new
example of a Lindelof topological group. The question whether all finite powers
of this group are Lindelof remains open.
In this paper we introduce and study three new cardinal topological
invariants called the cs*, cs-, and sb-characters. The class of topological
spaces with countable cs*-character is closed under many topological operations
and contains all aleph-spaces and all spaces with point-countable cs*-network.
Our principal result states that each non-metrizable sequential topological
group with countable cs*-character has countable pseudo-character and contains
an open $k_\omega$-subgroup.