Proper actions on topological groups: Applications to quotient spaces
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Abstract:
Let $X$ be a Hausdorff topological group and $G$ a locally compact subgroup of $X$. We show that the natural action of $G$ on $X$ is proper in the sense of R. Palais. This is applied to prove that there exists a closed set $F\subset X$ such that $FG=X$ and the restriction of the quotient projection $X\to X/G$ to $F$ is a perfect map $F\to X/G$. This is a key result to prove that many topological properties (among them, paracompactness and normality) are transferred from $X$ to $X/G$, and some others are transferred from $X/G$ to $X$. Yet another application leads to the inequality $\mathrm {dim} X\le \textrm {dim} X/G + \mathrm {dim} G$ for every paracompact topological group $X$ and a locally compact subgroup $G$ of $X$ having a compact group of connected components.References
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Additional Information
- Sergey A. Antonyan
- Affiliation: Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autó- noma de México, 04510 México Distrito Federal, México
- Email: antonyan@unam.mx
- Received by editor(s): May 15, 2009
- Published electronically: May 27, 2010
- Additional Notes: The author was supported in part by grants #IN102608 from PAPIIT (UNAM) and #79536 from CONACYT (Mexico)
- Communicated by: Alexander N. Dranishnikov
- © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 3707-3716
- MSC (2010): Primary 22A05, 22F05, 54H11, 54H15, 54F45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10504-X
- MathSciNet review: 2661569