let $pounds$ be the category of all locally compact abelian (lca) groups‎. ‎in this paper‎, ‎the groups $g$ in $pounds$ are determined such that every extension $0to xto yto gto 0$ with divisible‎, ‎$sigma-$compact $x$ in $pounds$ splits‎. ‎we also determine the discrete or compactly generated lca groups $h$ such that every pure extension $0to hto yto xto 0$ splits for each divisible group $x$ ...

Relativizing an idea from multiplicity theory, we say that an element x of a von Neumann algebra M is n-divisible if W (x) ∩ M unitally contains a factor of type In. We decide the density of the n-divisible operators, for various n, M, and operator topologies. The most sensitive case is σ-strong density in II1 factors, which is closely related to the McDuff property. We make use of Voiculescu’s...