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Locally compact groups and locally minimal group topologies

Volume 244 / 2019

Wenfei Xi, Dikran Dikranjan, Wei He, Zhiqiang Xiao Fundamenta Mathematicae 244 (2019), 109-124 MSC: Primary 22D05; Secondary 54H11. DOI: 10.4064/fm468-3-2018 Published online: 15 October 2018

Abstract

Minimal groups are Hausdorff topological groups $G$ satisfying the open mapping theorem with respect to continuous isomorphisms, i.e., every continuous isomorphism $G\to H$, with $H$ a Hausdorff topological group, is a topological isomorphism. A topological group $(G, \tau )$ is called locally minimal if there exists a neighbourhood $V$ of the identity such that for every Hausdorff group topology $\sigma \leq \tau $ with $V \in \sigma $ one has $\sigma = \tau $. Minimal groups, as well as locally compact groups, are locally minimal. According to a well known theorem of Prodanov, every subgroup of an infinite compact abelian group $K$ is minimal if and only if $K$ is isomorphic to the group $\mathbb {Z}_{p}$ of $p$-adic integers for some prime $p$.

We find a remarkable connection of local minimality to Lie groups and $p$-adic numbers by means of the following results extending Prodanov’s theorem: every subgroup of a locally compact abelian group $K$ is locally minimal if and only if either $K$ is a Lie group, or $K$ has an open subgroup isomorphic to $\mathbb {Z}_{p}$ for some prime $p$. In the nonabelian case we prove that all subgroups of a connected locally compact group are locally minimal if and only if $K$ is a Lie group, resolving Problem 7.49 from Dikranjan and Megrelishvili (2014) in the positive.

Authors

  • Wenfei XiInstitute of Mathematics
    Nanjing Normal University
    Nanjing 210046, China
    e-mail
  • Dikran DikranjanDipartimento di Matematica
    e Informatica
    Università di Udine
    33100 Udine, Italy
    e-mail
  • Wei HeInstitute of Mathematics
    Nanjing Normal University
    Nanjing 210046, China
    e-mail
  • Zhiqiang XiaoInstitute of Mathematics
    Nanjing Normal University
    Nanjing 210046, China
    e-mail

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