Dieses Dokument darf im Rahmen von § 53 UrhG zum eigenen Gebrauch kostenfrei heruntergeladen, gelesen, gespeichert und ausgedruckt, aber nicht im Internet bereitgestellt oder an Außenstehende weitergegeben werden.This document may be downloaded, read, stored and printed for your own use within the limits of § 53 UrhG but it may not be distributed via the internet or passed on to external parties.Herfort, WolfgangHofmann, Karl HeinrichKramer, LinusRusso, Francesco G.2024-10-162024-10-162018https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/16894https://doi.org/10.34657/15916For any locally compact abelian periodic group A its automorphism group contains as a subgroup those automorphisms that leave invariant every closed subgroup of A, to be denoted by SAut(A). This subgroup is again a locally compact abelian periodic group in its natural topology and hence allows a decomposition into its p-primary subgroups for p the primes for which topological p-elements in this automorphism subgroup exist. The interplay between the p-primary decomposition of SAut(A) and A can be encoded in a bipartite graph, the mastergraph of A. Properties and applications of this concept are discussed.eng510Report