Christian Rosendal : The structure of locally compact totally disconnected groups according to G. Willis (Part II)

Posted by Christian Rosendal , part of the Logic Seminar.

At

Nov. 9, 2010, 4 p.m.

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SEO 612

Abstract

Abstract: I will present the main ideas of the paper "The Structure of totally disconnected, locally compact groups" by G. Willis. Relevant literature: G. Willis: The structure of totally disconnected locally compact groups, Math. Ann. 300 (1994). G. Willis: Further properties on the scale function on a totally disconnected group, J. Algebra 237 (2001) Chatzidakis, Hrushovski: An invariant for difference field extensions, arXiv:0902.0844v3 [math.LO]