Generators of Monothetic Groups

Abstract

A topological group G is called monothetic if it contains a dense cyclic subgroup. An element x of G is called a generator of G if x generates a dense cyclic subgroup of G. We denote by E(G) the set of generators of G; the complement of E(G) in G, consisting of the “non-generators” of G, we write as N(G) Throughout this paper we consider only locally compact abelian (LCA) groups satisfying the T2 separation axiom (note that a monothetic group is automatically abelian). In [1] certain problems of measurability concerning the set E(G) are discussed. In this paper we shall consider some algebraic and topological properties of the sets E(G) and N(G)