Expansive actions of automorphisms of locally compact groups G on Sub_G

DOI10.1007/S00605-020-01389-5MaRDI QIDQ784005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manoj B. Prajapati, Riddhi Shah

Publication date 5 August 2020

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10558

zbMATH Keywords

Chabauty topologycontraction groupexpansive automorphismexpansive homeomorphismlocally compact group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Analysis on (p)-adic Lie groups (22E35) Dynamics in general topological spaces (37B02) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Abstract: For a locally compact metrizable group $G$, we consider the action of $mAut(G)$ on ${mSub}_G$, the space of all closed subgroups of $G$ endowed with the Chabauty topology. We study the structure of groups $G$ admitting automorphisms $T$ which act expansively on ${mSub}_G$. We show that such a group $G$ is necessarily totally disconnected, $T$ is expansive and that the contraction groups of $T$ and $T^{-1}$ are closed and their product is open in $G$; moreover, if $G$ is compact, then $G$ is finite. We also obtain the structure of the contraction group of such $T$. For the class of groups $G$ which are finite direct products of $mathbb{Q}_p$ for distinct primes $p$, we show that $TinmAut(G)$ acts expansively on ${mSub}_G$ if and only if $T$ is expansive. However, any higher dimensional $p$-adic vector space $mathbb{Q}_{p^n}$, ($ngeq2$), does not admit any automorphism which acts expansively on ${mSub}_G$.

Review text

In the theory of dynamical systems, a homeomorphism \(T\colon X\to X\) of a metric space \((X,d)\) is called expansive if there exists \(\epsilon >0\) such that, for all \(x,y\in X\) with \(x\not=y\), the iterates \(T^n(x)\) and \(T^n(y)\) have distance \(d(T^n(x),T^n(y))>\epsilon\) for some integer~\(n\). For topological groups with left-invariant metrics, results concerning expansive automorphisms emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly for compact groups. The structure theory of totally disconnected locally compact groups, initiated in 1994 by \textit{G. Willis} [Math. Ann. 300, No. 2, 341--363 (1994; Zbl 0811.22004)], enabled progress concerning expansive automorphisms of the latter groups (and the special case of contractive automorphisms) in the last decade, and most recently (via work of \textit{R. Shah} [New York J. Math. 26, 285--302 (2020; Zbl 1435.22005)]) also for general locally compact groups. If \(G\) is a metrizable locally compact group, then the set \(\text{Sub}_G\) of all closed subgroups of~\(G\) is a compact, metrizable topological space in a natural way, using the Chabauty topology introduced in the 1950s. In the last decade, \(\text{Sub}_G\) and the Chabauty topology thereon attracted considerable interest (see [\textit{P.-E. Caprace} (ed.) and \textit{N. Monod} (ed.), New directions in locally compact groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018; Zbl 1390.22004)]). Every automorphism \(T\) of~\(G\) induces a homeo\-morphism \(\text{Sub}_G\to \text{Sub}_G\), \(H \mapsto T(H)\) and a corresponding homeomorphism of the compact subset \(\text{Sub}^a_G\) of abelian closed subgroups of \(G\). Among other topics, the article investigates the question for which \(G\) an automorphism \(T\) can be found such that the corresponding homeomorphism of \(\text{Sub}_G\) (resp., \(\text{Sub}^a_G\)) is expansive. The authors show that whenever a locally compact group \(G\) admits an automorphism \(T\) which acts expansively on \(\text{Sub}_G\), then \(G\) is totally disconnected, \(T\) is expansive and the contraction group \(C(T):=\{g\in G\colon \lim_{n\to\infty} T^n(g)=e\}\) is closed in \(G\) (see Theorem 4.1). Moreover, \(C(T)\cong {\mathbb Q}_{p_1}\times\cdots\times {\mathbb Q_{p_k}}\) for certain primes \(p_1<\cdots <p_k\) (cf.\ Theorem 4.2). If \(T\) acts expansively on \(\text{Sub}_G\), then it acts expansively on \(\text{Sub}^a_G\). Already expansivity of the \(T\)-action on \(\text{Sub}^a_G\) imposes restrictions on~\(G\). For example, a connected Lie group \(G\) must be trivial if it admits an automorphism acting expansively on \(\text{Sub}^a_G\) (Theorem 3.1). Reviewer's comment: In Lemmas 2.4 and 2.5, \(X\) should be assumed compact.

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