Distal actions on coset spaces in totally disconnected locally compact groups

DOI10.1142/S1793525319500523zbMATH Open1473.22006arXiv1610.06696WikidataQ129351387 ScholiaQ129351387MaRDI QIDQ5115626FDOQ5115626

Colin D. Reid

Publication date: 17 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a totally disconnected, locally compact group and let $H$ be an equicontinuously (for example, compactly) generated group of automorphisms of $G$. We show that every distal action of $H$ on a coset space of $G$ is a SIN action, with the small invariant neighbourhoods arising from open $H$-invariant subgroups. We obtain a number of consequences for the structure of the collection of open subgroups. For example, it follows that for every compactly generated subgroup $K$ of $G$, there is a compactly generated open subgroup $E$ of $G$ such that $KleE$ and such that every open subgroup of $G$ containing a finite index subgroup of $K$ contains a finite index subgroup of $E$. We also show that for a large class of closed subgroups $L$ of $G$ (including for instance all closed subgroups $L$ such that $L$ is an intersection of subnormal subgroups of open subgroups), every compactly generated open subgroup of $L$ can be realized as $LcapO$ for an open subgroup of $G$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06696

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zbMATH Keywords

totally disconnected locally compact groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Simple groups (20E32) Automorphism groups of locally compact groups (22D45)

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