Talk:Extension of a topological group

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Cramyam in topic Split extensions of nonabelian groups

Relatively open continuous homomorphism edit

The term "relatively open continuous homomorphism" is used in the introduction but not defined anywhere in the article or linked to a definition elsewhere: indeed, it is not mentioned anywhere else on Wikipedia. I presume that the definition being used here is that a homomorphism is relatively open if it is an open map to its image with the subset topology? This is the definition used by Bello et al. Natural boundary (talk) 06:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

answer: Yes, you are right, relatively open means exactly that. I've just change it. Thank you for the suggestion. (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Split extensions of nonabelian groups edit

I'm not an expert on extensions of topological groups, but it seems to me that the statement that being a split extension is equivalent to being isomorphic to a trivial extension should only hold in the abelian category. For general groups, being a split extension is equivalent to being isomorphic to a semidirect product, and I would imagine the story isn't much different in the case of topological groups. (At least when we take discrete groups, we should recover the fact that there are split extensions--semidirect products--which are nontrivial, i.e. not direct products). Cramyam (talk) 05:02, 11 February 2021 (UTC)Reply