scholarly journals LOCALLY COMPACT WREATH PRODUCTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
YVES CORNULIER

Wreath products of nondiscrete locally compact groups are usually not locally compact groups, nor even topological groups. As a substitute introduce a natural extension of the wreath product construction to the setting of locally compact groups. Applying this construction, we disprove a conjecture of Trofimov, constructing compactly generated locally compact groups of intermediate growth without any open compact normal subgroup.

Author(s):  
R. W. Bagley ◽  
T. S. Wu ◽  
J. S. Yang

AbstractIf G is a locally compact group such thatG/G0contains a uniform compactly generated nilpotent subgroup, thenGhas a maximal compact normal subgroupKsuch thatG/Gis a Lie group. A topological groupGis an N-group if, for each neighbourhoodUof the identity and each compact setC⊂G, there is a neighbourhoodVof the identity such thatfor eachg∈G. Several results on N-groups are obtained and it is shown that a related weaker condition is equivalent to local finiteness for certain totally disconnected groups.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin D. Reid ◽  
Phillip R. Wesolek

Abstract Let {\phi:G\rightarrow H} be a group homomorphism such that H is a totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c.) group and the image of ϕ is dense. We show that all such homomorphisms arise as completions of G with respect to uniformities of a particular kind. Moreover, H is determined up to a compact normal subgroup by the pair {(G,\phi^{-1}(L))} , where L is a compact open subgroup of H. These results generalize the well-known properties of profinite completions to the locally compact setting.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Sanjib Basu ◽  
Krishnendu Dutta

Abstract We prove that, under certain restrictions, every locally compact group equipped with a nonzero, σ-finite, regular left Haar measure can be decomposed into two small sets, one of which is small in the sense of measure and the other is small in the sense of category, and all such decompositions originate from a generalised notion of a Lebesgue point. Incidentally, such class of topological groups for which this happens turns out to be metrisable. We also observe an interesting connection between Luzin sets in such spaces and decompositions of the above type.


1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Heinrich Hofmann ◽  
Sidney A. Morris

In the category of locally compact groups not all families of groups have a product. Precisely which families do have a product and a description of the product is a corollary of the main theorem proved here. In the category of locally compact abelian groups a family {Gj; j ∈ J} has a product if and only if all but a finite number of the Gj are of the form Kj × Dj, where Kj is a compact group and Dj is a discrete torsion free group. Dualizing identifies the families having coproducts in the category of locally compact abelian groups and so answers a question of Z. Semadeni.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE-EMMANUEL CAPRACE ◽  
COLIN D. REID ◽  
GEORGE A. WILLIS

We use the structure lattice, introduced in Part I, to undertake a systematic study of the class $\mathscr{S}$ consisting of compactly generated, topologically simple, totally disconnected locally compact groups that are nondiscrete. Given $G\in \mathscr{S}$, we show that compact open subgroups of $G$ involve finitely many isomorphism types of composition factors, and do not have any soluble normal subgroup other than the trivial one. By results of Part I, this implies that the centralizer lattice and local decomposition lattice of $G$ are Boolean algebras. We show that the $G$-action on the Stone space of those Boolean algebras is minimal, strongly proximal, and microsupported. Building upon those results, we obtain partial answers to the following key problems: Are all groups in $\mathscr{S}$ abstractly simple? Can a group in $\mathscr{S}$ be amenable? Can a group in $\mathscr{S}$ be such that the contraction groups of all of its elements are trivial?


Author(s):  
N. Th. Varopoulos

In this paper we shall be mainly concerned with the following three apparently widely differing questions.(a) What are the possible group topologies on an Abelian group that have a given, fixed continuous character group?In developing our theory, we are very strongly motivated by the duality theory of linear topological spaces and in particular by Mackey's theorem of that theory. This important result gives a complete characterization of all locally convex topologies on a linear space that have a given, fixed, separating dual space. The analogue of Mackey's theorem for groups, together with related results, is examined in sections 1 and 2 of part 2 of the paper.(b) What are the properties of topological groups that are denumerable inductive limits of locally compact groups? (See section 1 of part 1 of the paper for definitions.)Our aim here is to extend results known for locally compact groups to this larger class of groups. The topological study of these groups is carried out in section 3 of part 1 of the paper and the really deep results about their characters are proved in section 5 of part 3 of the paper, as applications of the theory developed in that part of the paper, which is a type of harmonic analysis for these groups.(c) What are the properties of certain algebras of measures of a locally compact group G, that strictly contain L1(G), and share most of the pleasing properties of L1(G), that is, they do not have any of the pathological features of the full measure algebra M(G) such as the Wiener–Pitt phenomenon or asymmetry?


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. Lau ◽  
P. Milnes ◽  
J. S. Pym

AbstractLet N be a compact normal subgroup of a locally compact group G. One of our goals here is to determine when and how a given compactification Y of G/N can be realized as a quotient of the analogous compactification (ψ, X) of G by Nψ = ψ(N) ⊂ X; this is achieved in a number of cases for which we can establish that μNψ ⊂ Nψ μ for all μ ∈ X A question arises naturally, ‘Can the latter containment be proper?’ With an example, we give a positive answer to this question.The group G is an extension of N by GN and can be identified algebraically with Nx GN when this product is given the Schreier multiplication, and for our further results we assume that we can also identify G topologically with N x GN. When GN is discrete and X is the compactification of G coming from the left uniformly continuous functions, we are able to show that X is an extension of N by (GN)(X≅N x (G/N)) even when G is not a semidirect product. Examples are given to illustrate the theory, and also to show its limitations.


1997 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Willis

It is shown that, if G is a totally disconnected, compactly generated and nilpotent locally compact group, then it has a base of neighbourhoods of the identity consisting of compact, open, normal subgroups. An example is given showing that the hypothesis that G be compactly generated is necessary.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (09) ◽  
pp. 1350158 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRIEDRICH MARTIN SCHNEIDER ◽  
SEBASTIAN KERKHOFF ◽  
MIKE BEHRISCH ◽  
STEFAN SIEGMUND

In this paper we provide a geometric characterization of those locally compact Hausdorff topological groups which admit a faithful strongly chaotic continuous action on some Hausdorff space.


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