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Are amenable groups topologizable?
I've learned about the notion of topologizability from "On topologizable and non-topologizable groups" by Klyachko, Olshanskii and Osin (http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7895) - a discrete group $G$ is ...
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What is the strongest nerve lemma?
The most basic nerve lemma can be found as Corollary 4G.3 in Hatcher's Algebraic Topology:
If $\mathcal U$ is an open cover of a paracompact space $X$ such that every nonempty intersection of ...
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Is this "Homology" useful to study?
In the usual singular homology of a topological space $X$, one consider the free abelian group generated by all continuous maps from the standard simplex $\Delta^{n}$ to $X$.
Now we can ...
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A meager subgroup of the real line, which cannot be covered by countably many closed subsets of measure zero?
Is there a ZFC-example of a subgroup $H$ of the real line $\mathbb R$ such $H$ is meager, has zero Lebesgue measure, but cannot be covered by countably many closed subsets of measure zero in $\mathbb ...
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A connected Borel subgroup of the plane
It is known that the complex plane $\mathbb C$ contain dense connected (additive) subgroups with dense complement but each dense path-connected subgroup of $\mathbb C$ necessarily coincides with $\...
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If an additive group of $\Bbb R^2$ contains a smoothly deformed circle, is it necessarily all of $\Bbb R^2$?
It can be shown that if an additive subgroup of $\Bbb R^2$ contains the unit circle, then it is necessarily all of $\Bbb R^2$. Does this also hold for a suitably smoothly deformed unit circle?
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Topology of marked groups for different number of generators
A $k$-marked groups is a pair $(G,S)$ where $G$ is a group and $S$ is an ordered set of $k$ generators of $G$. Each such pair can be identified with a normal subgroup of the free group $F_k$ of rank $...
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example of an n-transitive but not infinitely transitive group action on a space
Definition. An action of a group $G$ on a set $X$ is strongly $n$-transitive if $G$ acts transitively on $n$-tuples of distinct elements in $X$ (via the diagonal action), and is $n$-transitive if $G$ ...
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The smallest cardinality of a cover of a group by algebraic sets
$\DeclareMathOperator\cov{cov}$A subset $A$ of a semigroup $X$ is called algebraic if $$A=\{x\in X: a_0xa_1x...xa_n=b\}$$ for some $b\in X$ and $a_0,a_1,...,a_n \in X^1=X\cup \{1\}$. The smallest ...
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Tensor product of dual groups
Let $G,H$ be compact abelian groups, $G^*,H^*$ be their Pontryagin duals, $G^*\otimes H^*$ the tensor product of $G^*,H^*$ and $K=(G^*\otimes H^*)^*$. Does the group $K$ have a special name? What is ...
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$M^3$ admits $Sol$ geometry if and only if $\pi_1M$ is virtually solvable but not virtually nilpotent?
Let $M$ be a closed, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold and having an infinite fundamental group. Is it true that $M$ admits $Sol$ geometry if and only if $\pi_1M$ is virtually solvable but not ...
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Aspherical space whose fundamental group is subgroup of the Euclidean isometry group
Let $M$ be a smooth, compact manifold without a boundary, with its universal covering $\tilde{M} = \mathbb{R}^n$. If there exists an injective homomorphism $h: \pi_1(M) \rightarrow O(k) \ltimes \...
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Polish groups with no small subgroups
Definitions.
A Polish group is a topological group $G$ that is homeomorphic to a separable complete metric space.
A group $G$ has no small subgroups if there exists a neighborhood $U$ of the identity ...
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Separation of topological group elements by invariant neighbourhooods
Let $G$ be a topological group that is Hausdorff, that is, for every pair $(g,h)$ of distinct elements of $G$, there exist disjoint open sets $U_g$ and $U_h$ such that $g \in U_g$ and $h \in U_h$.
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Possible homogeneity of infinite dimensional Sierpinski carpet analogues?
Start with the Hilbert cube $H=I^\omega$, thinking of its coordinates as written in ternary expansion.
Construct subsets $S_n$ by removing points from $H$ if for any $m$,
at least $n$ of the ...
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Profinite topologies
We can define two topologies on a group $G$ by considering all normal subgroups of finite index (resp. of index a finite power of $p$ - where $p$ is a prime) as basis of $1\in G$.
My questions: Under ...
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Let $ G $ be a Lie group and $ H $ a connected subgroup of $ G $. If $ N_G(H)/H $ is finite does that imply $ H $ must be closed in $ G $?
Let $ G $ be a Lie group and $ H $ a connected subgroup of $ G $. If $ N_G(H)/H $ is finite does that imply $ H $ must be closed in $ G $?
The assumption that $ N_G(H)/H $ is finite cannot be weakened ...
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Non-triviality of map $S^{24} \longrightarrow S^{21} \longrightarrow Sp(3)$
Let $\theta$ be the generator of $\pi_{21}(Sp(3))\cong \mathbb{Z}_3$, (localized at 3).
How to show the composition
$$S^{24}\longrightarrow S^{21}\overset{\theta}\longrightarrow Sp(3)$$
is non-trivial ...
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Existence of disintegrations for improper priors on locally-compact groups
In wide generality, the disintegration theorem says that Radon probability measures admit disintegrations. I'm trying to understand the case when we weaken this to infinite measures, specifically ...
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Is each TS-topologizable group TG-topologizable?
Definition 1. A topology $\tau$ on a group $X$ is called
$\bullet$ a semigroup topology if the multiplication $X\times X\to X$, $(x,y)\mapsto xy$, is continuous in the topology $\tau$;
$\bullet$ a ...
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When is the submonoid preserving a subspace finitely generated?
Let $T$ be a topological space with at least one open set whose closure is not open.
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group acting by homeomorphisms on $T$. Let $S\subset T$ be a subspace.
Under what ...
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Almost invariance in compact quotients of locally compact groups
While trying to get an analogue of Weiss's monotiling result for amenable residually finite groups
in the topological setting, I face the following problem.
Let $G$ be a locally compact amenable ...
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Topological systems of imprimitivity
Let $G$ be a group acting by homeomorphisms on a topological space $X$. $G$ is topologically transitive if every open $G$-invariant subset of $X$ is empty or dense.
Here is an attempt to define ...
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Commutator length of the fundamental group of some grope
A popular way to describe a grope as the direct limit $L$ of a nested sequence of compact 2-dimensional polyhedra
$L_0 \to L_1 \to L_2 \to \cdots$
obtained as follows. Take $L_0$ as some $S_g$, an ...
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Some counter examples in group theory
In this question, which we flag it as a community wiki question, we search for a big list of groups $G$ which can not be isomorphic to a structure mentioned in $i.$ for some $i \in \{1,2,\ldots,...
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Triviality of map $(\Sigma \theta)^*$
We know that there is a cofibration sequence
$$S^{4n+1}\xrightarrow{\theta}\Sigma^{4m-1} Q_{n-m} \rightarrow \Sigma^{4m-1} Q_{n-m+1} \rightarrow S^{4n+2}\xrightarrow{\Sigma\theta}\Sigma^{4m} Q_{n-m}.$$...
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Complete reducibility, in linear algebra and in topology
I thought that this is a simple question and asked it at the Mathematics StackExchange, but I now have to elevate it to MathOverflow.
Consider a representation $A(G)$ of a group $G$ in a vector space $...
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Uniquely divisible neighborhoods of identity in topological groups
Let $G$ be a (finite dimensional real) Lie group, and let $A\subset G$ be an open neighborhood of identity. If $A=\operatorname{Exp}(\mathcal{A})$ is the injective range of the exponential map from a ...
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Centralizer of a dense subgroup in a maximal subgroup of a reductive group
I am looking for a reference to the following statement
"Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group and $K$ a maximal compact subgroup of $G$. If $H$ is a dense subgroup in $K$, then the centralizer of $H$...
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Selecting dense diagonals in $\Bbb T^2$
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $G=\bigcup_{n\in \Bbb N}\{\exp(k\frac{2\pi i}{p^n})\mid k\in \Bbb Z\}$ be a Prüfer group. For homomorphisms $f,g:G\to G$ let $H_{f,g}=\{(f(x),g(x))\mid x\in G\}$. ...
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Hall's paper on the profinite groups and Andre Weils "voisinage" notion
I am reading through a classical paper A Topology for Free Groups and Related Groups
by Marshall Hall Jr. in which profinite groups are defined for the first time.
There he defines on p. 129:
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A section over an orbit space
Let $G$ be a compact second countable Hausdorff group, and let $X=G/H$ be a homogeneous space with $H\subset G$ a closed subgroup. Let further $K\subset G$ be another closed subgroup.
Questions:
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Toral subgroup acting regularly on the homogeneous space
Let $G$ be a connected second countable compact Hausdorff group, and let $H\subset G$ be a closed subgroup such that the homogeneous space $G/H$ has continuum cardinality. For every $x\in G/H$ let $...
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Intersection of cocompact closed normal subgroups
Let $G$ be a locally compact Hausdorff topological group.
Definition A closed normal subgroup $H \unlhd G$ is called cocompact if $G/H$ is compact with respect to the quotient topology.
Note that ...
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Approximating open subset of profinite group by union of cosets of ideal
I am trying to understand the proof of Theorem 1.3 in this paper by poonen. Poonen refers to Lemma 20 in a different paper. He claims that the open subset $U_P \subseteq \hat{\mathcal{O}}_P$ can be ...
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A cellular automaton with an image that is not closed
Let $G$ be a non-locally finite periodic group and let $V$ be an infinite-dimensional vector space over a field $\mathbb{F}$. Does there exist a nontrivial topology on $V^G$ and a linear cellular ...
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Idempotent conjecture and (weak) connectivity of (a reasonable) dual group
What is an example of a torsion free discrete abelian group $G$ whose dual space $\hat{G}$ is not a path connected space?
The Motivation: The motivation comes from the idempotent conjecture of ...
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Classification of closures of additive subgroups of $\mathbb{R}^n$
If $G$ is an additive subgroup of the real numbers $\mathbb{R}$ and $\overline{G}$ is the topological closure of $G$ then either
$\overline{G} = a \cdot \mathbb{Z}$ for some $a \in \mathbb{R}$, or
$\...
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Presentation complex of a finite perfect group and its features
Let $G$ be a finite perfect group and consider $X_G$, its presentation complex. I have the following questions:
Is there any special property of $X_G$ due to the group's perfectness?
What can we say ...
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Left-side cosets of an open subgroup
Let $G$ be a topological group and $H$ its closed subgroup. $K$ and $L$ are open subgroups of $G$ and $H$ respectively. Let $g_{1}, g_{2}\in G$. We assume $L\cap g_{1}K\neq \emptyset$ and $L\cap g_{2}...
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