Contraction groups and the big cell for endomorphisms of Lie groups over local fields

TL;DR

This paper investigates the structure of contraction, anti-contraction, and Levi subgroups in Lie groups over local fields under endomorphisms, establishing the openness of the big cell and properties of associated mappings.

Contribution

It introduces the big cell construction for endomorphisms of Lie groups over local fields and analyzes the topological and group-theoretic properties of related subgroups.

Findings

The big cell is open in the Lie group.

The map f6 is e9tale under suitable structures.

Contraction and anti-contraction groups have specific algebraic properties.

Abstract

Let $G$ be a Lie group over a totally disconnected local field and $\alpha$ be an analytic endomorphism of $G$. The contraction group of $\alpha$ ist the set of all $x\in G$ such that $\alpha^n(x)\to e$ as $n\to\infty$. Call sequence $(x_{-n})_{n\geq 0}$ in $G$ an $\alpha$-regressive trajectory for $x\in G$ if $\alpha(x_{-n})=x_{-n+1}$ for all $n\geq 1$ and $x_0=x$. The anti-contraction group of $\alpha$ is the set of all $x\in G$ admitting an $\alpha$-regressive trajectory $(x_{-n})_{n\geq 0}$ such that $x_{-n}\to e$ as $n\to\infty$. The Levi subgroup is the set of all $x\in G$ whose $\alpha$-orbit is relatively compact, and such that $x$ admits an $\alpha$-regressive trajectory $(x_{-n})_{n\geq 0}$ such that $\{x_{-n}\colon n\geq 0\}$ is relatively compact. The big cell associated to $\alpha$ is the set $\Omega$ of all all products $xyz$ with $x$ in the contraction group, $y$ in the Levi subgroup and $z$ in the anti-contraction group. Let $\pi$ be the mapping from the cartesian product of the contraction group, Levi subgroup and anti-contraction group to $\Omega$ which maps $(x,y,z)$ to $xyz$. We show: $\Omega$ is open in $G$ and $\pi$ is \'{e}tale for suitable immersed Lie subgroup structures on the three subgroups just mentioned. Moreover, we study group-theoretic properties of contraction groups and anti-contraction groups.