Our main interest is the existence of maximal compact normal subgroups of locally compact topological groups and its relation to compactly generated subgroups. If a topological group G has a compact ...
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 1973), pp. 22-28 (7 pages) Let G = (A * B; U) be the free product of A and B with the subgroup U amalgamated. Various conditions ...