陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Notes 0: Hilbert’s fifth problem and related topics」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

This fall (starting Monday, September 26), I will be teaching a graduate topics course which I have entitled “ Hilbert’s fifth problem and related topics .” The course is going to focus on three related topics:

I have already blogged about these topics repeatedly in the past (particularly with regard to Hilbert’s fifth problem ), and I intend to recycle some of that material in the lecture notes for this course.

已知结果和反例

The above three families of results exemplify two broad principles (part of what I like to call “ the dichotomy between structure and randomness “):

Let me illustrate what I mean by these two principles with two simple examples, one in the continuous setting and one in the discrete setting. We begin with a continuous example. Given an complex matrix , define the matrix exponential of by the formula

证明或构造的主线

which can easily be verified to be an absolutely convergent series.

Exercise 1 Show that the map is a real analytic (and even complex analytic) map from to , and obeys the restricted homomorphism property

阅读时建议盯住的点

Proposition 1 (Rigidity and structure of matrix homomorphisms) Let be a natural number. Let be the group of invertible complex matrices. Let be a map obeying two properties:

Proof: Let be as above. Let be a small number (depending only on ). By the homomorphism property, (where we use here to denote the identity element of ), and so by continuity we may find a small such that for all (we use some arbitrary norm here on the space of matrices, and allow implied constants in the notation to depend on ).

值得单独记下的条目

• Hilbert’s fifth problem on the topological description of Lie groups, as well as the closely related (local) classification of locally compact groups (the Gleason-Yamabe theorem).
• Approximate groups in nonabelian groups, and their classification via the Gleason-Yamabe theorem (this is very recent work of Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green, Tom Sanders, and myself, building upon earlier work of Hrushovski);
• Gromov’s theorem on groups of polynomial growth , as proven via the classification of approximate groups (as well as some consequences to fundamental groups of Riemannian manifolds).
• (Rigidity) If a group-like object exhibits a weak amount of regularity, then it (or a large portion thereof) often automatically exhibits a strong amount of regularity as well;
• (Group-like object) is a homomorphism, thus for all .
• (Weak regularity) The map is continuous.
• (Strong regularity) The map is smooth (i.e. infinitely differentiable). In fact it is even real analytic.
• (Lie-type structure) There exists a (unique) complex matrix such that for all .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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