Some Properties of Distal Actions on Locally Compact Groups

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2017.58MaRDI QIDQ6230396arXivFDO

Authors C. R. E. Raja, Riddhi Shah

Publication date 20 January 2012

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/ETDS.2017.58

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups and semigroups; invariant theory (associative rings and algebras) (16W22) General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05)

arXiv classification

math.DSmath.GR

Abstract: We consider the actions of (semi)groups on a locally compact group by automorphisms. We show the equivalence of distality and pointwise distality for the actions of a certain class of groups. We also show that a compactly generated locally compact group of polynomial growth has a compact normal subgroup $K$ such that $G/K$ is distal and the conjugacy action of $G$ on $K$ is ergodic; moreover, if $G$ itself is (pointwise) distal then $G$ is Lie projective. We prove a decomposition theorem for contraction groups of an automorphism under certain conditions. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for distality of an automorphism in terms of its contraction group. We compare classes of (pointwise) distal groups and groups whose closed subgroups are unimodular. In particular, we study relations between distality, unimodularity and contraction subgroups.

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