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We prove that recent results of Baumgartner and Willis on contraction groups of automorphisms of metrizable totally disconnected locally compact groups (Israel J. Math. 142 (2004), 221–248) remain true for non-metrizable groups.
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Jaworski, W. On contraction groups of automorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups. Isr. J. Math. 172, 1–8 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-009-0059-0
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