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The Chabauty space of closed subgroups of the three-dimensional Heisenberg group
When equipped with the natural topology first defined by Chabauty, the closed
subgroups of a locally compact group form a compact space \Cal C(G). We
analyse the structure of \Cal C(G) for some low-dimensional Lie groups,
concentrating mostly on the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group . We prove that
\Cal C(H) is a 6-dimensional space that is path--connected but not locally
connected. The lattices in form a dense open subset \Cal L(H) \subset \Cal
C(H) that is the disjoint union of an infinite sequence of
pairwise--homeomorphic aspherical manifolds of dimension six, each a torus
bundle over , where denotes a
trefoil knot. The complement of \Cal L(H) in \Cal C(H) is also described
explicitly. The subspace of \Cal C(H) consisting of subgroups that contain
the centre is homeomorphic to the 4--sphere, and we prove that this is a
weak retract of \Cal C(H).Comment: Minor edits. Final version. To appear in the Pacific Journal. 41
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Kneser-Hecke-operators in coding theory
The Kneser-Hecke-operator is a linear operator defined on the complex vector
space spanned by the equivalence classes of a family of self-dual codes of
fixed length. It maps a linear self-dual code over a finite field to the
formal sum of the equivalence classes of those self-dual codes that intersect
in a codimension 1 subspace. The eigenspaces of this self-adjoint linear
operator may be described in terms of a coding-theory analogue of the Siegel
-operator
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