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Computably locally compact groups and their closed subgroups

Group Theory 2024-07-30 v1 General Topology Logic

Abstract

Given a computably locally compact Polish space MM, we show that its 1-point compactification MM^* is computably compact. Then, for a computably locally compact group GG, we show that the Chabauty space S(G)\mathcal S(G) of closed subgroups of GG has a canonical effectively-closed (i.e., Π10\Pi^0_1) presentation as a subspace of the hyperspace K(G)\mathcal K(G^*) of closed sets of GG^*. We construct a computable discrete abelian group HH such that S(H)\mathcal S(H) is not computably closed in K(H)\mathcal K(H^*); in fact, the only computable points of S(H)\mathcal S(H) are the trivial group and HH itself, while S(H)\mathcal S(H) is uncountable. In the case that a computably locally compact group GG is also totally disconnected, we provide a further algorithmic characterization of S(G)\mathcal S(G) in terms of the countable meet groupoid of GG introduced recently by the authors (arXiv: 2204.09878). We apply our results and techniques to show that the index set of the computable locally compact abelian groups that contain a closed subgroup isomorphic to (R,+)(\mathbb{R},+) is arithmetical.

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@article{arxiv.2407.19440,
  title  = {Computably locally compact groups and their closed subgroups},
  author = {Alexander G. Melnikov and Andre Nies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19440},
  year   = {2024}
}
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