Topological module

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In mathematics, a topological module is a module over a topological ring such that scalar multiplication and addition are continuous.

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A topological vector space is a topological module over a topological field.

An abelian topological group can be considered as a topological module over Z, where Z is the ring of integers with the discrete topology.