Locally compact groups approximable by subgroups isomorphic to Z or R

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2016.11.005MaRDI QIDQ347262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hatem Hamrouni, Karl H. Hofmann

Publication date 30 November 2016

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05885

zbMATH Keywords

Chabauty topologycompact elementinductively monothetic groupiterated limitlocally compact groupmonothetic groupsolenoidal group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of LCA groups (22B05)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a locally compact topological group, $G_0$ the connected component of its identity element, and comp(G) the union of all compact subgroups. A topological group will be called inductively monothetic if any subgroup generated (as a topological group) by finitely many elements is generated (as a topological group) by a single element. The space SUB(G) of all closed subgroups of $G$ carries a compact Hausdorff topology called the Chabauty topology. Let $F_1(G)$, respectively, $R_1(G)$, denote the subspace of all discrete subgroups isomorphic to $mathbbZ$, respectively, all subgroups isomorphic to $mathbbR$. It is shown that a necessary and sufficient condition for $Ginoverline{F}_1(G)$ to hold is that $G$ is abelian, and either that $GcongmathbbRimesmcomp(G)$ and $G/G_0$ is inductively monothetic, or else that $G$ is discrete and isomorphic to a subgroup of $mathbbQ$. It is further shown that a necessary and sufficient condition for $Ginoverline{R}_1(G)$ to hold is that $GcongmathbbRimesC$ for a compact connected abelian group $C$.

Review text

One of the rather sophisticated concepts of group theory is that of a locally compact topological group that evolved widely and deeply. The authors of the paper pose and answer completely the question under which circumstances locally compact groups can be approximated by subgroups isomorphic to \(\mathbb Z\) or \(\mathbb R\). The following are the main results of the paper. A locally compact group \(G\) is integrally approximable if and only if it is either discrete, in which case it is isomorphic to a subgroup of \(\mathbb Q\), or else it is Abelian and of the form \(G\cong\mathbb R\times\text{comp}(G)\), where \(G/G_0\cong\text{comp}(G)/\text{comp}(G)_0\) is periodic inductively monothetic. A locally compact group \(G\) is numerally approximable if and only if it is of the form \(G\cong\mathbb R\times C\) with a compact connected Abelian group \(C\).

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