Locally normal subgroups of totally disconnected groups. II: Compactly generated simple groups

DOI10.1017/FMS.2017.8MaRDI QIDQ5280250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Colin D. Reid, George A. Willis

Publication date 20 July 2017

Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3142

zbMATH Keywords

fifth Hilbert problemgenerally nondiscrete totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c.) groupsStone spaces of those Boolean algebrasstructure lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: We use the structure lattice, introduced in Part I, to undertake a systematic study of the class $mathscrS$ consisting of compactly generated, topologically simple, totally disconnected locally compact groups that are non-discrete. Given $GinmathscrS$, we show that compact open subgroups of $G$ involve finitely many isomorphism types of composition factors, and do not have any soluble normal subgroup other than the trivial one. By results of Part I, this implies that the centraliser lattice and local decomposition lattice of $G$ are Boolean algebras. We show that the $G$-action on the Stone space of those Boolean algebras is minimal, strongly proximal, and micro-supported. Building upon those results, we obtain partial answers to the following key problems: Are all groups in $mathscrS$ abstractly simple? Can a group in $mathscrS$ be amenable? Can a group in $mathscrS$ be such that the contraction groups of all of its elements are trivial?

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