We study locally compact contractive local groups, that is, locally compact local groups with a contractive pseudo-automorphism. We prove that if such an object is locally connected, then it is locally isomorphic to a Lie group. We also prove a related structure theorem for locally compact contractive local groups which are not necessarily locally connected. These results are local analogues of...

We define, for a locally compact quantum group G in the sense of Kustermans– Vaes, the space of LUC (G) of left uniformly continuous elements in L∞(G). This definition covers both the usual left uniformly continuous functions on a locally compact group and Granirer’s uniformly continuous functionals on the Fourier algebra. We show that LUC (G) is an operator system containing the C∗-algebra C0(...

We show how a recent result of Hrushovsky [6] implies that if an asymptotic cone of a finitely generated group is locally compact, then the group is virtually nilpotent. Let G be a group generated by a finite set X. Then G can be considered as a metric space where dist(g, h) is the length of a shortest word on X ∪X−1 representing g−1h. Let ω be a non-principal ultrafilter on N, i.e. a function ...

Let G be a locally compact totally disconnected group. Recall that every neighborhood of 1 in G contains a compact open subgroup. If G is assumed to be compact, then every neighborhood of 1 in G contains a compact open normal subgroup. On the other hand, it follows from properties of Lie groups that the group GL(n,C) has the property that there is some neighborhood of the identity which contain...

In this paper we show that a “locally Lipschitz” locally compact transformation group acting continuously and effectively on a connected paracompact locally Euclidean topological manifold is a Lie group. This is a contribution to the proof of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture. It generalizes the classical Bochner-Montgomery-Kuranishi Theorem[1, 9] and also the Repovš-Ščepin Theorem [17] which holds ...

We introduce a notion of L-Betti numbers for locally compact, second countable, unimodular groups. We study the relation to the standard notion of L-Betti numbers of countable discrete groups for lattices. In this way, several new computations are obtained for countable groups, including lattices in algebraic groups over local elds, and Kac-Moody lattices. We also extend the vanishing of reduce...

Consider a closed subgroup H of a locally compact group G together with a strongly continuous unitary representation u of H on a Hilbert space K. The construction of the induced representation uses these three ingredients to supply a new strongly continuous unitary representation ρ of the larger group G on a new Hilbert space K. Induced group representations for finite groups where first introd...

It is known that locally compact groups approximable by finite ones are unimodular, but this condition is not sufficient, for example, the simple Lie groups are not approximable by finite ones as topological groups. In this paper the approximations of locally compact groups by more general finite algebraic systems are investigated. It is proved that the approximation of locally compact groups b...

Let X, Y, Z be topological spaces. A function F :X × Y → Z is called jointly continuous if it is continuous from X × Y with the product topology to Z . It is said to be separately continuous if x 7→ F (x, y):X → Z is continuous for each y ∈ Y and y 7→ F (x, y):Y → Z is continuous for each x ∈ X . A semitopological semigroup is a semigroup S endowed with a topology such that the multiplication f...

In this note we shall prove that every locally compact group can be embedded as a closed subgroup in a unimodular group. If the original group is locally Euclidean, the enlarged group will be also, hence the fifth problem of Hilbert is reduced to the unimodular case. We shall use certain results concerning Haar measure whose proof may be found in A. Weil, U integration dans les groupes topologi...