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 5: The structure of locally compact groups, and Hilbert’s fifth problem」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

In the previous notes, we established the Gleason-Yamabe theorem :

Theorem 1 (Gleason-Yamabe theorem) Let be a locally compact group. Then, for any open neighbourhood of the identity, there exists an open subgroup of and a compact normal subgroup of in such that is isomorphic to a Lie group.

已知结果和反例

Roughly speaking, this theorem asserts the “mesoscopic” structure of a locally compact group (after restricting to an open subgroup to remove the macroscopic structure, and quotienting out by to remove the microscopic structure) is always of Lie type.

在这类讨论里, we combine the Gleason-Yamabe theorem with some additional tools from point-set topology to improve the description of locally compact groups in various situations.

证明或构造的主线

We first record some easy special cases of this. If the locally compact group has the no small subgroups property, then one can take to be trivial; thus is Lie, which implies that is locally Lie and thus Lie as well. Thus the assertion that all locally compact NSS groups are Lie (Theorem 10 from Notes 4 ) is a special case of the Gleason-Yamabe theorem.

In a similar spirit, if the locally compact group is connected, then the only open subgroup of is the full group ; in particular, by arguing as in the treatment of the compact case (Exercise 19 of Notes 3 ), we conclude that any connected locally compact Hausdorff group is the inverse limit of Lie groups.

阅读时建议盯住的点

Now we return to the general case, in which need not be connected or NSS. One slight defect of Theorem 1 is that the group can depend on the open neighbourhood . However, by using a basic result from the theory of totally disconnected groups known as van Dantzig’s theorem , one can make independent of :

Theorem 2 (Gleason-Yamabe theorem, stronger version) Let be a locally compact group. Then there exists an open subgoup of such that, for any open neighbourhood of the identity in , there exists a compact normal subgroup of in such that is isomorphic to a Lie group.

值得单独记下的条目

• Define a connected component of a topological space to be a maxmial connected set. Show that the connected components of form a partition of , thus every point in belongs to exactly one connected component.
• Conversely, if one has a short exact sequence of topological groups, with connected and totally disconnected, show that is isomorphic to , and is isomorphic to .
• If is locally compact, show that and are also locally compact.
• Show that contains an open subgroup which is “compact-by-connected” in the sense that is compact. ( Hint: apply van Dantzig’s theorem to .)
• Show that there exists a smooth map from to with no fixed point.
• Show that there exists a smooth map from to the unit sphere , which equals the identity function on .
• Show that there exists a smooth map from to the unit sphere , which equals the map on a neighbourhood of .
• By computing the integral in two different ways (one by using Stokes’ theorem, and the other by using the -dimensional nature of the sphere ), establish a contradiction.

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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