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Chief series in locally compact groups

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

I will be talking about joint work with Phillip Wesolek. A chief factor of a topological group $G$ is a factor $K/L$, where $K$ and $L$ are closed normal subgroups such that no closed normal subgroup of $G$ lies strictly between $K$ and $L$. We show that a compactly generated locally compact group admits an 'essentially chief series', that is, a finite normal series in which each of the factors is compact, discrete or a chief factor. In the totally disconnected case, the proof is based on the fact that $G$ acts vertex-transitively on a locally finite connected graph with compact open stabilizers. I will also indicate why totally disconnected chief factors can have a complicated normal subgroup structure as groups in their own right, in contrast to semisimple groups.

Mathematics; Group theory and generalizations; Topological groups, lie groups; Algebraic structures

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Author affiliation: University of Newcastle

2017-05-15

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61685

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/