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The continuous group action of a topological group is called “proper” if it behaves like the action of a compact topological group, without necessarily being compact.
In particular, the isotropy groups of a proper action are compact.
Consider
a group action of on (making a topological G-space):
The action is called proper (Palais 61, Def. 1.2.2) if one of the following equivalent conditions hold (their equivalence relies on being locally compact and Hausdorff, Palais 61, Thm. 1.2.9, Karppinen 16, Rem. 5.2.4):
(Bourbaki properness) The shear map is a proper continuous function:
(Bourbaki 60, Ch. III, Sec. 4.4, review in Lee 00, p. 266)
(Borel properness) For every compact subspace the subset
is compact.
(Palais 61, Thm 1.2.9 (5), attributed there to Borel)
(Palais properness) Every point has a neighbourhood such that every point has a neighbourhood such that
Let be a smooth manifold and let be a compact Lie group. Then every continuous action of on is proper.
(e.g. Lee 12, Cor. 21.6)
For more see at equivariant differential topology.
The original definition are due to:
Richard Palais, On the Existence of Slices for Actions of Non-Compact Lie Groups, Annals of Mathematics
Second Series, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Mar., 1961), pp. 295-323 (jstor:1970335, doi:10.2307/1970335, pdf)
(in the context of proving the slice theorem)
Nicolas Bourbaki, Éléments de mathématique, Topologie générale, Chap. 3: Groupes topologiques, 1960
Textbook accounts:
John M. Lee, Section 12.3 of: Introduction to topological manifolds. Graduate Texts in Mathematics 202 (2000), Springer. ISBN: 0-387-98759-2, 0-387-95026-5.
Second edition: Springer, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4419-7939-1 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7940-7, errata pdf)
John Lee, around p. 147 of: Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Springer 2012 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9982-5, pdf)
Marja Kankaanrinta, Def. 2.1 in Equivariant collaring, tubular neighbourhood and gluing theorems for proper Lie group actions, Algebr. Geom. Topol. Volume 7, Number 1 (2007), 1-27 (euclid:agt/1513796653)
See also
Further discussion
Sini Karppinen, The existence of slices in -spaces, when is a Lie group, Helsinki 2016 (hdl:10138/190707)
(in the context of the slice theorem)
Sergey Antonyan, Universal proper G-spaces, Topology and its Applications Volume 117, Issue 1, 15 January 2002, Pages 23-43 (doi:10.1016/S0166-8641(00)00115-2)
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