Bourbaki

Proposition 25

Tag 0BIV, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0BIV].

General Topology, chapter III, § 2. Subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms homogeneous spaces, product groups

Let (Gi)i∈I(G_i)_{i \in I} be a family of topological groups, and let HH be the normal subgroup of G=∏i∈IGiG = \prod_{i \in I} G_i consisting of all x=(xi)x = (x_i) such that the xix_i are equal to the identity element eie_i of GiG_i except for a finite number of indices. Then the subgroup HH is dense in GG.

This is a particular case of Chapter I, § 4, no. 3, Proposition 8.

Let (Xi)i∈I(X_i)_{i \in I} be a family of topological spaces, and for each i∈Ii \in I let GiG_i be a topological group operating continuously on XiX_i. It is clear that the product group G=∏i∈IGiG = \prod_{i \in I} G_i then operates continuously on the product space X=∏i∈IXiX = \prod_{i \in I} X_i according to the law

((si),(xi))→(si⋅xi) ((s_i), (x_i)) \to (s_i \cdot x_i)

(Chapter I, § 4, no. 1, Proposition 1, Corollary 1, and Proposition 2). Moreover the orbit under GG of a point x=(xi)x = (x_i) of XX is the product of the orbits of the xix_i (with respect to the groups GiG_i). Let φi\varphi_i be the canonical mapping of XiX_i onto Xi/GiX_i/G_i, and let φ=(φi)\varphi = (\varphi_i) be the product mapping of XX onto ∏i∈I(Xi/Gi)\prod_{i \in I} (X_i/G_i); then the preceding remark shows that the bijection canonically associated with φ\varphi maps the orbit space X/GX/G onto ∏i∈I(Xi/Gi)\prod_{i \in I} (X_i/G_i). Moreover:

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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