Growing trees from compact subgroups

DOI10.4171/GGD/759arXiv2111.07066MaRDI QIDQ6504785FDOQ6504785

Authors: Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Timothée Marquis, Colin D. Reid 

Abstract: We establish a new connection between local and large-scale structure in compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact (t.d.l.c.) groups $G$, finding a sufficient condition for $G$ to have more than one end in terms of its compact subgroups. The condition actually results in an action of $G/N$ on a tree with faithful micro-supported action on the boundary, where $N$ is compact, and is closely related to the Boolean algebra formed by the centralisers of locally normal subgroups of $G/N$. As an application, we find a sufficient condition, given a one-ended t.d.l.c. group $G$, for all direct factors of open subgroups of $G$ to be trivial or open.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

This page was built for publication: Growing trees from compact subgroups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6504785)