In mathematics, a monothetic group is a topological group with a dense cyclic subgroup. They were introduced by Van Dantzig (1933). An example is the additive group of p-adic integers, in which the integers are dense.
A monothetic group is necessarily abelian.
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- van Dantzig, D. (1933), "Zur topologischen Algebra", Mathematische Annalen, 107, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 587–626, doi:10.1007/BF01448911, ISSN 0025-5831, S2CID 115662380