Steinberg symbol

In algebra, the Hausdorff completion ${\widehat {G}}$ of a group G with filtration $G_{n}$ is the inverse limit $\varprojlim G/G_{n}$ of the discrete group $G/G_{n}$. A basic example is a profinite completion. The image of the canonical map $G\to {\widehat {G}}$ is a Hausdorff topological group and its kernel is the intersection of all $G_{n}$: i.e., the closure of the identity element. The canonical homomorphism $\operatorname {gr} (G)\to \operatorname {gr} ({\widehat {G}})$ is an isomorphism.

The concept is named after Felix Hausdorff.

References

• Nicolas Bourbaki, Commutative algebra

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