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Locally compact wreath products

Group Theory 2019-07-10 v2

Abstract

Wreath products of non-discrete locally compact groups are usually not locally compact groups, nor even topological groups. We introduce a natural extension of the wreath product construction to the setting of locally compact groups. As an application, we disprove a conjecture of Trofimov, constructing compactly generated locally compact groups of intermediate growth without nontrivial compact normal subgroups.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08880,
  title  = {Locally compact wreath products},
  author = {Yves Cornulier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08880},
  year   = {2019}
}

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28 pages

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