Locally Compact Case
This property is interesting in the case of locally compact topological groups, since locally compact compactly generated topological groups can be approximated by locally compact, separable metric factor groups of G. More precisely, for a sequence
- Un
of open identity neighborhoods, there exists a normal subgroup N contained in the intersection of that sequence, such that
- G/N
is locally compact metric separable (the Kakutani-Kodaira-Montgomery-Zippin theorem).
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