Maximal equivariant compactification of the Urysohn spaces and other metric structures (Q2227289)

Let \(X\) be a Tychonoff space (so \(X\) can be embedded into a compact Hausdorff space) and \(G\) is a topological group which acts on \(X\). In this article \(G\)-equivariant compactifications of \(X\) (i.e. \(G\)-embeddings into compact spaces with dense images) are investigated. It is proved that the maximal equivariant compactification of the Urysohn sphere \(U_1\) with \(G=\text{Iso}(U_1)\) (and of some related spaces) is the Gromov compactification, but this is not the case for unit spheres in Gurarij spaces. Then a model-theoretic approach to the investigation of equivariant compactifications is described. Also some results for the cases of transitive \(G\)-actions and some versions of transitivity (micro-transitivity) are proved. Several examples are given and some open questions are formulated.