On identities in connected topological groups
Abstract
In 1957, Nemytskii proved the following fact: if in a locally compact or in an Abelian connected group there is a neighborhood of the identity in which some identity holds, then it holds in the entire group. The following question was also posed there: Let G be a connected topological group. In some neighborhood of the identity of the group G the identity holds. Is it true that then the identity holds in the entire group ? The same question is posed for the identity , where is a fixed element of the group. Platonov formulated the following generalized formulation of the Mytselsky problem: for a topological connected group, is it true that if the identity holds in a neighborhood of the identity, then the identity holds everywhere? In this paper, a negative answer to Platonov's question is given, the following theorem is proven: if is odd, then there exists a connected topological group in which the identity holds in some neighborhood of unity, but not in the entire group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.05203,
title = {On identities in connected topological groups},
author = {Evgenii Reznichenko and Il'ya Zyabrev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05203},
year = {2025}
}
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in Russian language