Spaces of closed subgroups of locally compact groups

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Authors Pierre de la Harpe

Publication date 13 July 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Abstract: The set $CalC(G)$ of closed subgroups of a locally compact group $G$ has a natural topology which makes it a compact space. This topology has been defined in various contexts by Vietoris, Chabauty, Fell, Thurston, Gromov, Grigorchuk, and many others. The purpose of the talk was to describe the space $CalC(G)$ first for a few elementary examples, then for $G$ the complex plane, in which case $CalC(G)$ is a 4--sphere (a result of Hubbard and Pourezza), and finally for the 3--dimensional Heisenberg group $H$, in which case $CalC(H)$ is a 6--dimensional singular space recently investigated by Martin Bridson, Victor Kleptsyn and the author cite{BrHK}. These are slightly expanded notes prepared for a talk given at several places: the Kortrijk workshop on {it Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications III,} May 26--30, 2008; the {it Tripode 14,} 'Ecole Normale Sup'erieure de Lyon, June 13, 2008; and seminars at the EPFL, Lausanne, and in the Universit'e de Rennes 1. The notes do not contain any other result than those in cite{BrHK}, and are not intended for publication.

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