On test spaces for amenability

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Authors Yousef al-Gadid, Brice R. Mbombo, Vladimir G. Pestov

Publication date 1 December 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5058

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Induced representations for locally compact groups (22D30) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces (43A85)

Abstract: We observe that a Polish group $G$ is amenable if and only if every continuous action of $G$ on the Hilbert cube admits an invariant probability measure. This generalizes a result of Bogatyi and Fedorchuk. We also show that actions on the Cantor space can be used to detect amenability and extreme amenability of Polish non-archimedean groups as well as amenability at infinity of discrete countable groups. As corollary, the latter property can also be tested by actions on the Hilbert cube. These results generalize a criterion due to Giordano and de la Harpe.

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