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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>In <a href="Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>totally disconnected group</b> is a <a href="Topological_group" title="Topological group">topological group</a> that is <a href="Totally_disconnected" class="mw-redirect" title="Totally disconnected">totally disconnected</a>. Such topological groups are necessarily <a href="Hausdorff_space" title="Hausdorff space">Hausdorff</a>.
</p><p>Interest centres on <a href="Locally_compact" class="mw-redirect" title="Locally compact">locally compact</a> totally disconnected groups (variously referred to as groups of <b>td-type</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Locally_profinite_group" title="Locally profinite group">locally profinite groups</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BushnellHenniart_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BushnellHenniart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <b>t.d. groups</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). The <a href="Compact_space" title="Compact space">compact</a> case has been heavily studied – these are the <a href="Profinite_group" title="Profinite group">profinite groups</a> – but for a long time not much was known about the general case. A theorem of <a href="David_van_Dantzig" title="David van Dantzig">van Dantzig</a><sup id="cite_ref-Dantzig_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dantzig-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from the 1930s, stating that every such group contains a compact <a href="Open_set" title="Open set">open</a> <a href="Subgroup" title="Subgroup">subgroup</a>, was all that was known. Then groundbreaking work by <a href="George_A._Willis" title="George A. Willis">George Willis</a> in 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opened up the field by showing that every locally compact totally disconnected group contains a so-called <i>tidy</i> subgroup and a special function on its <a href="Automorphism" title="Automorphism">automorphisms</a>, the <i>scale function</i>, giving a quantifiable parameter for the local structure. Advances on the <i>global structure</i> of totally disconnected groups were obtained in 2011 by Caprace and <a href="Nicolas_Monod" title="Nicolas Monod">Monod</a>, with notably a classification of <a href="Characteristically_simple_group" title="Characteristically simple group">characteristically simple groups</a> and of <a href="Noetherian_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Noetherian group">Noetherian groups</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>In a locally compact, totally disconnected group, every <a href="Neighbourhood_(mathematics)" title="Neighbourhood (mathematics)">neighbourhood</a> of the identity contains a compact open subgroup. Conversely, if a group is such that the identity has a <a href="Neighbourhood_basis" class="mw-redirect" title="Neighbourhood basis">neighbourhood basis</a> consisting of compact open subgroups, then it is locally compact and totally disconnected.<sup id="cite_ref-BushnellHenniart_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BushnellHenniart-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tidy_subgroups">Tidy subgroups</h3></div>
<p>Let <i>G</i> be a locally compact, totally disconnected group, <i>U</i> a compact open subgroup of <i>G</i> and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }">
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<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }" loading="lazy"></span> a continuous automorphism of <i>G</i>.
</p><p>Define:
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<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{+}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U)}">
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<mi>n</mi>
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<mo stretchy="false">(</mo>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{+}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U)}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./29df1afbc7c084e58e985c30328dd4a7ce539580.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:15.969ex; height:5.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{+}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U)}" loading="lazy"></span></dd>
<dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{-}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U)}">
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<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>⋂<!-- ⋂ --></mo>
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<msup>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
<mi>n</mi>
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</msup>
<mo stretchy="false">(</mo>
<mi>U</mi>
<mo stretchy="false">)</mo>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{-}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U)}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./5b2a627ddc4af562a6a90b2c86dcac812cbdd5bd.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:17.247ex; height:5.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{-}=\bigcap _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U)}" loading="lazy"></span></dd>
<dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{++}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U_{+})}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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</msub>
<mo>=</mo>
<munder>
<mo>⋃<!-- ⋃ --></mo>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi>n</mi>
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<mn>0</mn>
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<msup>
<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi>n</mi>
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<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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<mo stretchy="false">)</mo>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{++}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U_{+})}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./148ac4d68aea53223fb332d44191d559621ebe6a.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:18.563ex; height:5.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{++}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{n}(U_{+})}" loading="lazy"></span></dd>
<dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{--}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U_{-})}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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</msub>
<mo>=</mo>
<munder>
<mo>⋃<!-- ⋃ --></mo>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi>n</mi>
<mo>≥<!-- ≥ --></mo>
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</munder>
<msup>
<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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<mo stretchy="false">(</mo>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{--}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U_{-})}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./f651998ab9920f0329d5e3454b104f13d0c892b2.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -3.171ex; width:19.841ex; height:5.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{--}=\bigcup _{n\geq 0}\alpha ^{-n}(U_{-})}" loading="lazy"></span></dd></dl>
<p><i>U</i> is said to be <b>tidy</b> for <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }" loading="lazy"></span> if and only if <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U=U_{+}U_{-}=U_{-}U_{+}}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>U</mi>
<mo>=</mo>
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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</msub>
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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</msub>
<mo>=</mo>
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<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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</mstyle>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U=U_{+}U_{-}=U_{-}U_{+}}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./24f4dd21679f9897cead72ea23f31ce85bb79ba2.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:20.373ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U=U_{+}U_{-}=U_{-}U_{+}}" loading="lazy"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{++}}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{++}}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./ce539b273c08f1fea3cc7cc47ca55aec2749f7f1.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.377ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{++}}" loading="lazy"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{--}}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
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</msub>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{--}}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./10ae27b06873235bb795c3f58db076adbee827ea.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.377ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{--}}" loading="lazy"></span> are closed.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_scale_function">The scale function</h3></div>
<p>The index of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha (U_{+})}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha (U_{+})}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./551ba73d2e7834f76ce1e540e7e58a40ce00f8dd.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:6.395ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha (U_{+})}" loading="lazy"></span> in <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle U_{+}}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>U</mi>
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<mo>+</mo>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle U_{+}}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./a7780c4d20ba7fd853c57744644d2fb022b2ab17.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:3.098ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U_{+}}" loading="lazy"></span> is shown to be finite and independent of the <i>U</i> which is tidy for <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha }">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>α<!-- α --></mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha }</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./b79333175c8b3f0840bfb4ec41b8072c83ea88d3.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.488ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha }" loading="lazy"></span>. Define the scale function <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s(\alpha )}">
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle s(\alpha )}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./c64d83c90f78a01367aa0266e66204997e0fd64e.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.387ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle s(\alpha )}" loading="lazy"></span> as this index. Restriction to <a href="Inner_automorphism" title="Inner automorphism">inner automorphisms</a> gives a function on <i>G</i> with interesting properties. These are in particular:<br>
Define the function <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s}">
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<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>s</mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle s}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./01d131dfd7673938b947072a13a9744fe997e632.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.09ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle s}" loading="lazy"></span> on <i>G</i> by
<span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s(x):=s(\alpha _{x})}">
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<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<li><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s(x)=1}">
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<li><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle s(x^{n})=s(x)^{n}}">
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<li>The modular function on <i>G</i> is given by <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \Delta (x)=s(x)s(x^{-1})^{-1}}">
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<p>The scale function was used to prove a conjecture by Hofmann and Mukherja and has been explicitly calculated for <a href="P-adic" class="mw-redirect" title="P-adic">p-adic</a> <a href="Lie_group" title="Lie group">Lie groups</a> and linear groups over local skew fields by Helge Glöckner.
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCartier1979">Cartier 1979</a>, §1.1</span>
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<li id="cite_note-BushnellHenniart-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BushnellHenniart_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BushnellHenniart_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBushnellHenniart2006">Bushnell &amp; Henniart 2006</a>, §1.1</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBorelWallach2000">Borel &amp; Wallach 2000</a>, Chapter X</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Dantzig-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dantzig_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFvan_Dantzig1936">van Dantzig 1936</a>, p. 411</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWillis1994">Willis 1994</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCapraceMonod2011">Caprace &amp; Monod 2011</a></span>
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