Notes on non-Archimedean topological groups

Abstract: We show that the Heisenberg type group

H_{X} = (B b b Z_{2} o p l u s V) l e f t t h r e e t i m e s V^{a s t}

, with the discrete Boolean group

, canonically defined by any Stone space

X

, is always minimal. That is,

H_{X}

does not admit any strictly coarser Hausdorff group topology. This leads us to the following result: for every (locally compact) non-archimedean

G

there exists a (resp., locally compact) non-archimedean minimal group

M

such that

G

is a group retract of

M .

For discrete groups

G

the latter was proved by S. Dierolf and U. Schwanengel. We unify some old and new characterization results for non-archimedean groups. Among others we show that every continuous group action of

G

on a Stone space

X

is a restriction of a continuous group action by automorphisms of

G

on a topological (even, compact) group

K

. We show also that any epimorphism

f : H o G

(in the category of Hausdorff topological groups) into a non-archimedean group

G

must be dense.

Review text

The authors provide some applications of generalized Heisenberg groups, with emphasis on minimality properties, in the theory of \({\mathcal N}{\mathcal A}\) groups and actions on Stone spaces. In particular, they show that the Heisenberg type group \(H_X= (\mathbb{Z}_2\oplus V)\leftthreetimes V^*\), with the discrete Boolean group \(V:= C(X,\mathbb{Z}_2)\), canonically defined by any Stone space \(X\) is always minimal. That is, \(H_X\) does not admit any strictly coarser Hausdorff group topology. This leads to the following result: for every (locally compact) non-Archimedean \(G\) there exists a (resp., locally compact) non-Archimedean minimal group \(M\) such that \(G\) is a group retract of \(M\). This result covers a result of \textit{S. Dierolf} and \textit{U. Schwanengel} [Pac. J. Math. 82, 349--355 (1979; Zbl 0388.22002)] which asserts that every discrete group is a group retract of a locally compact non-Archimedean minimal group. Furthermore, the authors also unify some old and new characterization results for non-Archimedean groups.

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