J. Aust. Math. Soc.
82 (2007), 315-324
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Monothetic algebraic groups
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Giovanni Falcone
Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici
Università di Palermo
viale delle Scienze
I-90128 Palermo
Italy
gfalcone@unipa.it
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Abstract
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We call an algebraic group monothetic if it
possesses a dense cyclic subgroup. For an
arbitrary field k we describe the
structure of all, not necessarily affine,
monothetic k-groups
G
and determine in which cases
G
has a k-rational generator.
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