On a Roelcke-precompact Polish group that cannot act transitively on a complete metric space

DOI10.1007/S11856-018-1638-8zbMATH Open1400.37030arXiv1510.00238OpenAlexW2963227594MaRDI QIDQ1650009FDOQ1650009

Itaï Ben Yaacov

Publication date: 29 June 2018

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study when a continuous isometric action of a Polish group on a complete metric space is, or can be, transitive. Our main results consist of showing that certain Polish groups, namely $mathrm{Aut}^{*}(mu)$ and $mathrm{Homeo}^{+}[0,1]$, such an action can never be transitive (unless the space acted upon is a singleton). We also point out "circumstantial evidence" that this pathology could be related to that of Polish groups which are not closed permutation groups and yet have discrete uniform distance, and give a general characterisation of continuous isometric action of a Roeckle-precompact Polish group on a complete metric space is transitive. It follows that the morphism from a Roeckle-precompact Polish group to its Bohr compactification is surjective.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00238

zbMATH Keywords

complete metric spacePolish groupBohr compactificationRoelcke-precompact topological grouptransitive group action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of sets (Borel fields, (sigma)-rings, etc.), measurable sets, Suslin sets, analytic sets (28A05) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Descriptive set theory (03E15)

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