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Locally compact sofic groups

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We introduce the notion of soficity for locally compact groups and list a number of open problems.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Lewis Bowen

  2. Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Carver Hall, 411 Morrill Rd., Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Peter Burton

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Dedicated to Benjy Weiss, with utmost admiration

Supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1900386

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Bowen, L., Burton, P. Locally compact sofic groups. Isr. J. Math. 251, 239–270 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-022-2431-2

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