On the structure of certain locally compact topological groups

Wu, Ta Sun

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1991-0994173-9

On the structure of certain locally compact topological groups
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Abstract:

A locally compact topological group $G$ is called an $({\text {H}})$ group if $G$ has a maximal compact normal subgroup with Lie factor. In this note, we study the problem when a locally compact group is an $({\text {H}})$ group.

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