Automorphism groups of countably categorical linear orders are extremely amenable

DOI10.1007/S11083-012-9252-6MaRDI QIDQ2376898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François G. Dorais, Steven Gubkin, Manuel Rivera, Daniel C. McDonald

Publication date 26 June 2013

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4092

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscountable categoricityextreme amenabilityFraïssé classeslinear ordersRamsey propertysum-shuffle expressiontopological group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Categoricity and completeness of theories (03C35) Generalized Ramsey theory (05C55) Total orders (06A05) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: We show that the automorphism groups of countably categorical linear orders are extremely amenable. Using methods of Kechris, Pestov, and Todorcevic, we use this fact to derive a structural Ramsey theorem for certain families of finite ordered structures with finitely many partial equivalence relations with convex classes.

Review text

A topological group \(G\) is extremely amenable if every action of \(G\) on a compact Hausdorff space has a fixed point. It was shown by \textit{V. G. Pestov} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 10, 4149--4165 (1998; Zbl 0911.54034)] that the automorphism group of the linear order of \(\mathbb{Q}\) is extremely amenable. Here the authors show that every countable linear order has a canonical sum-shuffle expression. They use Fraïssé limits to show that every countably categorical linear order is extremely amenable. They use methods of \textit{A. S. Kechris} et al. [Geom. Funct. Anal. 15, No. 1, 106--189 (2005; Zbl 1084.54014)] to derive structural Ramsey theorems.

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