scholarly journals On strongly just infinite profinite branch groups

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Le Maître ◽  
Phillip Wesolek
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Simple Groups ◽  
Continuity Property ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Automatic Continuity ◽  
Profinite Completion ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Grigorchuk Group ◽  
Continuity Properties ◽  
Additional Assumptions

AbstractFor profinite branch groups, we first demonstrate the equivalence of the Bergman property, uncountable cofinality, Cayley boundedness, the countable index property, and the condition that every non-trivial normal subgroup is open; compact groups enjoying the last condition are called strongly just infinite. For strongly just infinite profinite branch groups with mild additional assumptions, we verify the invariant automatic continuity property and the locally compact automatic continuity property. Examples are then presented, including the profinite completion of the first Grigorchuk group. As an application, we show that many Burger–Mozes universal simple groups enjoy several automatic continuity properties.

scholarly journals Homomorphisms into totally disconnected, locally compact groups with dense image

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin D. Reid ◽  
Phillip R. Wesolek
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Open Subgroup ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Group Homomorphism ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Compact Open Subgroup ◽  
Dense Image ◽  
Profinite Completions ◽  
Totally Disconnected

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.

scholarly journals LOCALLY COMPACT WREATH PRODUCTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
YVES CORNULIER
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Wreath Product ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Wreath Products ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Topological Groups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Intermediate Growth ◽  
Compactly Generated

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.

scholarly journals LOCALLY NORMAL SUBGROUPS OF TOTALLY DISCONNECTED GROUPS. PART II: COMPACTLY GENERATED SIMPLE GROUPS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE-EMMANUEL CAPRACE ◽  
COLIN D. REID ◽  
GEORGE A. WILLIS
Keyword(s):  
Boolean Algebras ◽  
Simple Groups ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Normal Subgroups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Composition Factors ◽  
Totally Disconnected ◽  
Compactly Generated ◽  
Centralizer Lattice

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?

Locally compact groups: maximal compact subgroups and N-groups

1988 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
R. W. Bagley ◽  
T. S. Wu ◽  
J. S. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Topological Group ◽  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Locally Compact Group ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Set ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Group A ◽  
Totally Disconnected ◽  
Compactly Generated

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.

Compactifications of locally compact groups and quotients

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. Lau ◽  
P. Milnes ◽  
J. S. Pym
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Compact Group ◽  
Semidirect Product ◽  
Continuous Functions ◽  
Locally Compact Group ◽  
Positive Answer ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Uniformly Continuous

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.

Continuity of automorphic representations

1973 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Von Neumann Algebra ◽  
Locally Compact Group ◽  
Unitary Representations ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Automorphic Representations ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Continuity Properties

Let ℛ be a von Neumann algebra, with predual ℛ*, acting on a Hilbert space ℋ; G a locally compact group with left Haar measure m, and α a representation of G on aut (ℛ), the group of all *-automorphisms of ℛ, i.e. α is a group homomorphism from G to aut (ℛ). We shall show that if ℋ is separable, then very weak measurability assumptions on the representation α produce strong continuity properties. This will be used to obtain results on the extension of representations from a C*-algebra to its weak closure, giving a much simpler proof of a result of Aarnes ((1), theorem 8, p. 31), and on continuity of tensor products of representations. The main result was suggested by the analogous theory concerning unitary representations of locally compact groups, and its proof employs ideas frequently used in that context. (See, for example, (5), theorem 22.20 (b), p. 347.)

Groups with Equal Uniformities

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 655-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Topological Group ◽  
Normal Subgroup ◽  
Compact Group ◽  
Locally Compact Group ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Vector Group ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Relationship

If G = (G, τ) is a topological group with topology τ, then there is a smallest topology τ* ⊇ τ such that G* = (G, τ*) is a topological group with equal left and right uniformities (1). Bagley and Wu introduced this topology in (1), and studied the relationship between Gand G*. In this paper we prove some additional results concerning G* and groups with equal uniformities in general. The structure of locally compact groups with equal uniformities has been studied extensively. If G is a locally compact connected group, then G has equal uniformities if and only if G ≅ V× K,where F is a vector group and Kis a compact group (5). More generally, every locally compact group with equal uniformities has an open normal subgroup of the form V× K(4).

scholarly journals Decomposing locally compact groups into simple pieces

2010 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE-EMMANUEL CAPRACE ◽  
NICOLAS MONOD
Keyword(s):  
Simple Groups ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Cocompact Subgroup ◽  
Simple Quotient ◽  
Compactly Generated

AbstractWe present a contribution to the structure theory of locally compact groups. The emphasis is on compactly generated locally compact groups which admit no infinite discrete quotient. It is shown that such a group possesses a characteristic cocompact subgroup which is either connected or admits a non-compact non-discrete topologically simple quotient. We also provide a description of characteristically simple groups and of groups all of whose proper quotients are compact. We show that Noetherian locally compact groups without infinite discrete quotient admit a subnormal series with all subquotients compact, compactly generated Abelian, or compactly generated topologically simple.Two appendices introduce results and examples around the concept of quasi-product.

scholarly journals AMENABILITY, FREE SUBGROUPS, AND HAAR NULL SETS IN NON-LOCALLY COMPACT GROUPS

2006 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 693-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
SŁAWOMIR SOLECKI
Keyword(s):  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Inverse Limits ◽  
Automatic Continuity ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Polish Groups ◽  
Continuity Result ◽  
Haar Null Sets ◽  
The One ◽  
Free Subgroups

The paper has two objectives. On the one hand, we study left Haar null sets, a measure-theoretic notion of smallness on Polish, not necessarily locally compact, groups. On the other hand, we introduce and investigate two classes of Polish groups which are closely related to this notion and to amenability. We show that left Haar null sets form a $\sigma$-ideal and have the Steinhaus property on Polish groups which are ‘amenable at the identity’, and that they lose these two properties in the presence of appropriately embedded free subgroups. As an application we prove an automatic continuity result for universally measurable homomorphisms from inverse limits of sequences of amenable, locally compact, second countable groups to second countable groups.

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