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Generators of Monothetic Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. L. Armacost
D. L. Armacost*
Affiliation:
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
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A topological group G is called monothetic if it contains a dense cyclic subgroup. An element x of G is called a generator of G if x generates a dense cyclic subgroup of G. We denote by E(G) the set of generators of G; the complement of E(G) in G, consisting of the “non-generators” of G, we write as N(G) Throughout this paper we consider only locally compact abelian (LCA) groups satisfying the T2 separation axiom (note that a monothetic group is automatically abelian). In [1] certain problems of measurability concerning the set E(G) are discussed. In this paper we shall consider some algebraic and topological properties of the sets E(G) and N(G)

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 1971 , pp. 791 - 796
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

References

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