Abstract homomorphisms from locally compact groups to discrete groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2019.07.026MaRDI QIDQ2324657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Olga Varghese, Linus Kramer

Publication date 11 September 2019

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07962

zbMATH Keywords

Artin groupsautomatic continuityCoxeter groupsgraph products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: We show that every abstract homomorphism $varphi$ from a locally compact group $L$ to a graph product $G_{G}amma$, endowed with the discrete topology, is either continuous or $varphi(L)$ lies in a 'small' parabolic subgroup. In particular, every locally compact group topology on a graph product whose graph is not 'small' is discrete. This extends earlier work by Morris-Nickolas. We also show the following. If $L$ is a locally compact group and if $G$ is a discrete group which contains no infinite torsion group and no infinitely generated abelian group, then every abstract homomorphism $varphi:LoG$ is either continuous, or $varphi(L)$ is contained in the normalizer of a finite nontrivial subgroup of $G$. As an application we obtain results concerning the continuity of homomorphisms from locally compact groups to Artin and Coxeter groups.

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