The Number of Prime Factors of the Scale Function on a Compactly Generated Group is Finite

DOI10.1112/blms/33.2.168zbMath1020.22002OpenAlexW2033882819MaRDI QIDQ3152266

George A. Willis

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/33.2.168

zbMATH Keywords

scale functiontidy subgroupSylow subgroupprime factortotally disconnected groupcompactly generated groupWillis theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) General properties and structure of other Lie groups (22E20) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Limits, profinite groups (20E18)

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