Normal generation of locally compact groups

Eisenmann, Amichai NetanelMonod, Nicolas2012-07-032012-07-032012-07-03201310.1112/blms/bdt009https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/83367WOS:000321718600008It is a well-known open problem since the 1970s whether a finitely generated perfect group can be normally generated by a single element or not. We prove that the topological version of this problem has an affirmative answer as long as we exclude infinite discrete quotients (which is probably a necessary restriction).Normal generation of locally compact groupstext::journal::journal article::research article