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The nonstandard treatment of Hilbert’s fifth problem
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 321 (1990), 379-400 Request permission

Abstract:

We give a nonstandard proof that every locally Euclidean group is a Lie group. The heart of the proof is a strong nonstandard variant of Gleason’s lemma for a class of groups that includes all locally Euclidean groups.
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  • © Copyright 1990 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 321 (1990), 379-400
  • MSC: Primary 22E15; Secondary 03H05, 22D05, 46Q05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1990-0967314-6
  • MathSciNet review: 967314