The paper is devoted to show that topological homotopy groups commute with
inverse limits under certain circumstances. As a consequence, we present some
conditions under which the topological homotopy group of an inverse limit space
is a topological group. We also give some conditions for countability of
homotopy groups.
In 1997, G. Ellis defined the Schur multiplier of a pair (G,N) of groups and
mentioned that this notion is a useful tool for studying pairs of groups. In
this paper we characterize the structure of a pair of finite p-groups (G,N) in
terms of the order of the Schur multiplier of (G,N) under some conditions.