Strong amenability and the infinite conjugacy class property (Q2334542): Difference between revisions

Let \(X\) be a compact Hausdorff space and \(G\) be a countable discrete group acting on \(X\). The authors show that \(G\) is strongly amenable (see [\textit{S. Glasner}, Proximal flows. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1976; Zbl 0322.54017)]) if and only if it has no quotients with infinite conjugacy class property (ICC). The groups that have no ICC quotients are also known as hyper-FC-central (see [\textit{D. H. McLain}, Proc. Glasg. Math. Assoc. 3, 38--44 (1956; Zbl 0072.25702)]) or hyper-FC (see [\textit{A. M. Duguid}, Pac. J. Math. 10, 117--120 (1960; Zbl 0102.26204)]). As a corollary of such characterization the authors obtain that a finitely generated group is strongly amenable if and only if it is virtually nilpotent. The proof of the main result relies on considering of ICC group \(G\) acting on some symbolic space and using genericity (in the Baire category sense) arguments.