On dense embeddings of discrete Abelian groups into locally compact groups (Q1420727)
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On dense embeddings of discrete Abelian groups into locally compact groups (English)
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22 January 2004
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In 1940 A. Weil established an interesting property of the group of integers: the image of every embedding of \(\mathbb Z\) into a locally compact group is either discrete or precompact. In the present paper, the following result is proved: An infinite Abelian group \(G\) satisfies that every embedding of \(G\) into a locally compact group is either discrete or precompact if and only if \(G\) is isomorphic to either \(\mathbb Z\times F\) or \(\mathbb Z_{p^{\infty}}\times F\), where \(F\) is a finite group and \(\mathbb Z_{p^{\infty}}\) is the group of roots of unity whose degrees are powers of a prime \(p\).
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dense embedding
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Abelian groups
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\(Z\)-property
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locally compact group
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