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Finitely generated subgroups and Chabauty topology in totally disconnected locally compact groups

  • Hatem Hamrouni EMAIL logo und Yousra Kammoun
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 23. Juni 2021

Abstract

For a locally compact group 𝐺, we write S U B ( G ) for the space of closed subgroups of 𝐺 endowed with the Chabauty topology. For any positive integer 𝑛, we associate to 𝐺 the function δ G , n from G n to S U B ( G ) defined by

δ G , n ( g 1 , , g n ) = gp ¯ ( g 1 , , g n ) ,

where gp ¯ ( g 1 , , g n ) denotes the closed subgroup topologically generated by g 1 , , g n . It would be interesting to know for which groups 𝐺 the function δ G , n is continuous for every 𝑛. Let [ HW ] be the class of such groups. Some interesting properties of the class [ HW ] are established. In particular, we prove that [ HW ] is properly included in the class of totally disconnected locally compact groups. The class of totally disconnected locally compact locally pronilpotent groups is included in [ HW ] . Also, we give an example of a solvable totally disconnected locally compact group not contained in [ HW ] .

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Professor Karl Heinrich Hofmann for sending us a copy of the article [18] he coauthored with Professor George Willis. We also want to thank the anonymous referee for the careful reading of the paper and for his/her valuable comments.

  1. Communicated by: George Willis

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Received: 2020-10-07
Revised: 2021-05-19
Published Online: 2021-06-23
Published in Print: 2023-01-01

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