The Burnside problem for locally compact groups

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Authors Thibaut Dumont, Thibault Pillon

Publication date 31 December 2018

Abstract: Using topological notions of translation-like actions introduced by Schneider, we give a positive answer to a geometric version of Burnside problem for locally compact group. The main theorem states that a locally compact group is non-compact if and only if it admits a translation-like action by the group of integers $mathbfZ$. We then characterize the existence of cocompact translation-like actions of $mathbfZ$ or non-abelian free groups on a large class of locally compact groups, improving on Schneider's results and generalising Seward's.

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