On the Chabauty space of locally compact Abelian groups (Q633886)

The Chabauty topology on the set \(\mathcal{S}(G)\) of all closed subgroups of a locally compact group \(G\) was introduced in [\textit{C. Chabauty}, Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 78, 143--151 (1950; Zbl 0039.04101)] as a generalization of the Minkowski-Mahler convergence of lattices, see also [\textit{N. Bourbaki}, Éléments de mathématique. Fascicule XXIX. Livre VI: Intégration. Chapitre 7: Mesure de Haar. Chapitre 8: Convolution et représentations. Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles 1306, Paris: Hermann \& Cie. (1963; Zbl 0156.03204)]. Let \(G\) be a locally compact Abelian group, \(G^\vee\) be the dual group. The paper contains {\parindent=4mm \begin{itemize}\item[--] Theorem 1.1 stating that the ``orthogonal map'' \(\mathcal{S}(G)\to \mathcal{S}(G^\vee)\) is a homeomorphism, an old result of the reviewer. \item[--] The formula (Theorem 1.2) \(\dim \mathcal{S}(G)= \dim G \dim G^\vee\) for the covering dimension of \(\mathcal{S}(G)\). \item[--] Theorems 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 refining the reviewer's and Tsybenko's criterion of the connectedness of \(\mathcal{S}(G)\). \item[--] Theorem 1.7 detecting whether a subgroup \(H\in\mathcal{S}(G)\) is an isolated point. \end{itemize}} For a compact group \(G\), this is Theorem 1 from [\textit{Yu. V. Tsybenko}, Ukr. Mat. Zh. 38, 635--639 (1986; Zbl 0617.22006)], which also contains a topological classification of \(\mathcal{S}(G)\) for discrete Abelian groups of cardinality \(\leqslant \aleph_1\). The author also confirms the reviewer's and Tsybenko's conjecture that, for a finite group \(\Gamma\), the space \(\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}\times\Gamma)\) need not be connected. For the convenience of the reader, standard topological facts are included.