Minimality conditions in topological groups (Q2874860)

The paper is a survey on minimal topological groups and their generalizations. A Hausdorff topological group is called \textit{minimal} if every injective continuous group homomorphism of \(G\) into a Hausdorff topological group is an embedding. The group \(G\) is \textit{totally minimal} if all Hausdorff quotients of \(G\) are minimal.NEWLINENEWLINEThe survey has nine sections. The first one introduces the necessary notions and presents the historical background. In Section 2 some old and some new results on minimality conditions in symmetric groups are discussed. Section 3 deals with basic structural properties of minimal groups.NEWLINENEWLINEIn Section 4 the authors examine semidirect products, \(G\)-minimality and homeomorphism groups as well as minimal groups coming from Analysis and Geometry. Section 5 is devoted to applications of generalized Heisenberg groups to the theory of minimal groups. Relative minimality and co-minimality of subgroups are presented in Section 6 and the focus of Section 7 is on locally minimal groups.NEWLINENEWLINESection 8 contains results on the relationship between connectedness properties, convergence properties and minimality. Section 9 examines convergent sequences in minimal groups as well as minimality combined with some kind of compactness properties.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper contains an exhaustive bibliography of 210 items and numerous open problems which outline possible future developments in the area.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1282.54001].