Limits of contraction groups and the tits core

Journal of Lie Theory

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 957-967

  Caprace, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Reid, Colin D ^b   Willis, George A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chabauty topology; Contraction group; Simple group; Totally disconnected locally compact group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901268567     PISSN: 09495932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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