No small subgroup

is said to have no small subgroup if there exists a neighborhood

of the identity that contains no nontrivial subgroup of

A basic example of a topological group with no small subgroup is the general linear group over the complex numbers.

A locally compact, separable metric, locally connected group with no small subgroup is a Lie group.

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