compact spaces with group structure
Proposition. Assume that is a group (with multiplication ) and is also a topological space
. If is compact
Hausdorff
and is continuous
, then is a topological group
.
Proof. Indeed, all we need to show is that function given by is continuous. Note, that the following holds for the graph of :
where denotes the neutral element in . It follows (from continuity of ) that is closed in . It is well known (see the parent object for details) that this implies that is continuous, which completes the proof.