Hilbert's Fifth Problem and the Hilbert–Smith Conjecture
Hilbert–Smith conjecture*: every locally compact topological group acting continuously and faithfully on a connected finite-dimensional topological manifold is a Lie group.
Questions, not proof records
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sorry marks an admitted statement, not a proof. Source indexing does not mean the formulation has been independently built or certified by Therefore.Hilbert–Smith conjecture*: every locally compact topological group acting continuously and faithfully on a connected finite-dimensional topological manifold is a Lie group.
The four dimensional case of the smooth version of the conjecture is still open. See [Wang2017].
Equivalent p-adic formulation: the p-adic integers ℤ_[p] cannot act continuously and
faithfully on any connected finite-dimensional topological manifold. By the Gleason–Yamabe
theorem, this is equivalent to hilbert_smith_conjecture.
It is conjectured that the only values of for which the smooth version of the conjecture holds are . See Conjecture 1.17 in [Wang2017].
The Bing-Borsuk Conjecture: every -dimensional homogeneous absolute neighborhood retract
is a topological -manifold. A topological space is an -dimensional manifold
when T2Space X ∧ Nonempty (ChartedSpace (Fin n → ℝ) X). The hypothesis [MetrizableSpace X]
implies T2Space X so this does not appear in the conclusion.