Building suitable sets for locally compact groups by means of continuous selections

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.12.009MaRDI QIDQ1013806zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitri Shakhmatov

Publication date 23 April 2009

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0489

zbMATH Keywords

compactly generatedconverging sequencegenerating ranklocally compact grouplower semicontinuousselectionset-valued mapsuitable set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Compact groups (22C05) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Subspaces in general topology (54B05) Spectra in general topology (54B35) Set-valued maps in general topology (54C60) Selections in general topology (54C65) Compactness (54D30) Local compactness, (sigma)-compactness (54D45) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

Abstract: If a discrete subset S of a topological group G with the identity 1 generates a dense subgroup of G and S cup {1} is closed in G, then S is called a suitable set for G. We apply Michael's selection theorem to offer a direct, self-contained, purely topological proof of the result of Hofmann and Morris on the existence of suitable sets in locally compact groups. Our approach uses only elementary facts from (topological) group theory.

Review text

A subset \(X\) of a topological group \(G\) is called a suitable set for \(G\) if \(X\) is discrete, \(X\cup\{1_G\}\) is closed, and the subgroup generated by \(X\) is dense in \(G\). The paper provides a new, completely elementary proof for the result that every locally compact group has a suitable set, first proved by \textit{K.~H. Hofmann} and \textit{S.~A. Morris} [J.~Pure Appl. Algebra 68, 181--194 (1990; Zbl 0728.22006)]. The new proof uses a selection theorem due to \textit{E.~Michael} [Am. Math. Mon. 63, 233--238 (1956; Zbl 0070.39502)] and basic results from topology and the theory of topological groups. The selection theorem, of course, has an elementary proof itself. The exposition is extremely clear: all necessary facts and intermediate steps are numbered and either proved or equipped with references to standard texts.

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