English

Totally disconnected groups (not) acting on two-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2023-08-15 v1

Abstract

We briefly survey the Hilbert--Smith Conjecture, and we include a proof of it in dimension two (where it is originally due to Montgomery--Zippin).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.08748,
  title  = {Totally disconnected groups (not) acting on two-manifolds},
  author = {John Pardon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08748},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures

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