Some thoughts and experiments on Bergman's compact amalgamation problem

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Authors Michael Joswig, Mario Kummer, Andreas Thom, Claudia He Yun

Publication date 17 April 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Compact groups (22C05) Special categories (18B99) Experimental work for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-05)

Abstract: We study the question whether copies of $S^1$ in $mathrmSU(3)$ can be amalgamated in a compact group. This is the simplest instance of a fundamental open problem in the theory of compact groups raised by George Bergman in 1987. Considerable computational experiments suggest that the answer is positive in this case. We obtain a positive answer for a relaxed problem using theoretical considerations.

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