Which groups act distally?

DOI10.1017/S0143385700001917zbMath0523.54027MaRDI QIDQ3673669

Herbert Abels

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

polynomial growthconnected locally compact topological groupconnected Lie group of polynomial growtheffective distal actionembedding as closed normal subgroupextension of nilpotent connected Lie group by a compact group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

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