Free compact groups. II: The center

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(88)90043-0MaRDI QIDQ1099259zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karl H. Hofmann, Sidney A. Morris

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(88)90043-0

zbMATH Keywords

centercommutator subgroupfree compact abelian groupfree compact groupsidentity componentprojective cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Structure of general topological groups (22A05) General properties and structure of LCA groups (22B05) Compact groups (22C05) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15)

Review text

The rôle and the structure of the center Z of the free compact group FX on a compact space X are studied in the second paper of the sequence devoted to free compact groups [for Part I see ibid. 23, 41-64 (1986; Zbl 0589.22003)]. It is shown that Z is contained in the identity component \((FX)_ 0\); the restriction of the quotient homomorphism z: FX\(\to FX/F'X\) to \(Z_ 0\), the component of the identity in Z, is the projective cover of the free abelian compact group \(F_ aX=FX/F'X\), where F'X is the closure of the commutator subgroup of FX. Conditions on X are found which imply that FX is the direct product of its commutator subgroup and a free compact abelian group.

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