Topologically Simple, Totally Disconnected, Locally Compact Infinite Matrix Groups
Journal of Lie theory, Tome 30 (2020) no. 4, pp. 965-98
We construct uncountably many non-locally isomorphic examples of topologically simple nondiscrete totally disconnected locally compact groups. The new examples differ from known examples of such groups in that they have trivial quasi-centre, but also have infinite abelian locally normal subgroups. The examples are constructed as almost upper-triangular matrices modulo scalar matrices over finite fields, where "almost upper-triangular" is defined with respect to one of an uncountable family of preorders generalising the natural orders on the set of integers and the set of natural numbers.
Classification :
22D05, 20H30, 20E18
Mots-clés : Infinite matrix, finite field, locally compact group, topologically simple, quasi-centre
Mots-clés : Infinite matrix, finite field, locally compact group, topologically simple, quasi-centre
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journal = {Journal of Lie theory},
pages = {965--98},
year = {2020},
volume = {30},
number = {4},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/JLT_2020_30_4_JLT_2020_30_4_a3/}
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P. Groenhout; G. A. Willis; C. D. Reid. Topologically Simple, Totally Disconnected, Locally Compact Infinite Matrix Groups. Journal of Lie theory, Tome 30 (2020) no. 4, pp. 965-98. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/JLT_2020_30_4_JLT_2020_30_4_a3/