Locally precompact groups: (Local) realcompactness and connectedness

Journal of Lie Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 347-374

  Comfort, W W ^a   Lukács, Gábor ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

balanced group; Connected group; Dieudonn complete group; Locally connected group; Locally Dieudonn complete group; Locally precompact group; Locally realcompact group; Precompact group; Precompactly generated group; Quasi component; Realcompact group; Weil completion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249255820     PISSN: 09495932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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