Rational automorphisms of products of simple p-compact groups are shown to be composites of products of rational automorphisms of the individual factors and permutation maps.

The notion of simple compact quantum group is introduced. As non-trivial (noncommutative and noncocommutative) examples, the following families of compact quantum groups are shown to be simple: (a) The universal quantum groups Bu(Q) for Q ∈ GL(n,C) satisfying QQ̄ = ±In, n ≥ 2; (b) The quantum automorphism groups Aaut(B, τ) of finite dimensional C ∗-algebras B endowed with the canonical trace τ w...

We show that every scalar valued continuous function f(g) on a compact group G may be written as f(g) = 〈Φ(g)ξ, η〉 for all g ∈ G, where ξ, η are vectors in a separable Hilbert space H, and Φ(g) is a strongly continuous unitary valued function on G which is a product of unitary representations and antirepresentations of G on H. This product is countable, but always converges uniformly on G. More...

This paper addresses the long standing question of discordant redshifts in compact groups. We have used an homogenous catalogue of 173 compact groups selected by an automated procedure to objectively predict the fraction of discordant redshifts with high statistical accuracy, and then applied these results to the sample of 92 compact groups in Hickson’s revised catalogue. Our results confirm th...

Let X1, X2, . . . be independent identically distributed random elements of a compact group G. We discuss the speed of convergence of the law of the product Xl · · ·X1 to the Haar measure. We give poly-log estimates for certain finite groups and for compact semi-simple Lie groups. We improve earlier results of Solovay, Kitaev, Gamburd, Shahshahani and Dinai. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classificat...