Groups which are not Lie groups

456 Views Asked by At

Question: What are examples of set-theoretic groups which do not admit any Lie group structure?

Note that this is different from asking for "a topological group which is not a Lie group", since here we would need to show that it is not a Lie group for any topology.

(Definition: I am assuming a Lie group is a second-countable Hausdorff locally-Euclidean space with a smooth structure for which the product and inversion maps are smooth.)

Note that any group with at most countably many elements can be given the structure of a $0$-dimensional Lie group with the discrete topology. Examples would thus have to be uncountable.

1

There are 1 best solutions below

2
On BEST ANSWER

Take an uncountable direct sum of, say, finite cyclic groups.