Metrizing the Chabauty topology

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0274-5MaRDI QIDQ1663764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian Biringer

Publication date 23 August 2018

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07396

zbMATH Keywords

Chabauty topologylocally compact topological group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Metric geometry (51F99) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We describe an explicit metric that induces the Chabauty topology on the space of closed subsets of a proper metric space M.

Review text

Given a metric space \(M\) which is proper (that is balls in \(M\) are compact) there is a nice compact topology on the set \(\mathcal C(M)\) of its closed subsets which makes a compact space of \(\mathcal C(M)\). It has been used extensively in group theory, starting with the paper of \textit{C. Chabauty} [Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 78, 143--151 (1950; Zbl 0039.04101)] where it was introduced. The Chabauty topology on \(\mathcal C(M)\) is usually defined by describing a basis of open subsets (given by those subsets of \(\mathcal C(M)\) comprising closed sets which avoid -- respectively intersect -- a given compact -- respectively open -- subset of \(M\)) but it is well-known that it is metrisable. In this short note the author describes a very explicit way of constructing a distance which induces the Chabauty topology; namely he proves that integrating Hausdorff distances in an exhaustion by concentric balls against a sufficiently decreasing function does the job.

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