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arxiv: 2204.09878 · v6 · pith:K7WJWESDnew · submitted 2022-04-21 · 🧮 math.LO

Computably totally disconnected locally compact groups

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We study totally disconnected, locally compact (t.d.l.c.) groups from an algorithmic perspective. We give various approaches to defining computable presentations of t.d.l.c.\ groups, and show their equivalence. In the process, we obtain an algorithmic Stone-type duality between t.d.l.c.~groups and certain countable ordered groupoids given by the compact open cosets. We exploit the flexibility given by these different approaches to show that several natural groups, such as $\mathrm{Aut}(T_d)$ and $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb Q_p)$, have computable presentations. We show that many construction leading from t.d.l.c.\ groups to new t.d.l.c.\ groups have algorithmic versions that stay within the class of computably presented t.d.l.c.\ groups. This leads to further examples, such as $\mathrm{PGL}_n(\mathbb Q_p)$. We study whether objects associated with computably t.d.l.c.\ groups are computable: the modular function, the scale function, and Cayley-Abels graphs in the compactly generated case. We give a criterion when computable presentations of t.d.l.c.~groups are unique up to computable isomorphism, and apply it to $\mathbb Q_p$ as an additive group, and the semidirect product $\mathbb Z\ltimes \mathbb Q_p$. We give (joint with Willis) an example of a computably t.d.l.c. group with noncomputable scale function.

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