Expansive automorphisms on locally compact groups (Q2305495)

The author proves the following results: \begin{itemize} \item[(1)] Any connected locally compact group which admits an expansive automorphism is nilpotent; \item[(2)] For any locally compact group \(G\), an automorphism \(\alpha\) of \(G\) is expansive if and only if for any \(\alpha\)-invariant closed subgroup \(H\) which is either compact or normal, the restriction of \(\alpha\) to \(H\) is expansive and the quotient map on \(G/H\) corresponding to \(\alpha\) is expansive; \item[(3)] A structure theorem for locally compact groups admitting expansive automorphisms; \item[(4)] An automorphism of a non-discrete locally compact group cannot be both distal and expansive. \end{itemize}