We study analogues of Cartan decompositions of Lie groups for totally disconnected locally compact groups. It is shown using these decompositions that a large class of totally disconnected locally compact groups acting on trees and buildings have the property that every continuous homomorphic image of the group is closed.
Journal title
Monatshefte fur MathematikVolume
200Issue
13 March 2022Publisher
SpringerCollege/Research Centre
College of Engineering, Science and EnvironmentSchool
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