Structure Theory of Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups via Graphs and Permutations

Willis's structure theory of totally disconnected locally compact groups is investigated in the context of permutation actions. This leads to new interpretations of the basic concepts in the theory and also to new proofs of the fundamental theorems and to several new results. The treatment of Willis's theory is self-contained and full proofs are given of all the fundamental results.

A Dual View of the Clifford Theory of Characters of Finite Groups, II

This paper continues the analysis of Clifford theory for the case of a finite group G, K a normal subgroup of G and G/K abelian which was developed in [7]. In [7] the permutation actions of G/K on the characters of K and of (G/K)^ on the characters of G were studied in relation to their effects on induction and restriction of group characters.