Chain conditions, elementary amenable groups, and descriptive set theory

DOI10.4171/GGD/411zbMATH Open1423.20020arXiv1410.0975OpenAlexW2964235464MaRDI QIDQ2013898FDOQ2013898

Authors: Phillip R. Wesolek, Jay Williams 

Publication date: 10 August 2017

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We first consider three well-known chain conditions in the space of marked groups: the minimal condition on centralizers, the maximal condition on subgroups, and the maximal condition on normal subgroups. For each condition, we produce a characterization in terms of well-founded descriptive-set-theoretic trees. Using these characterizations, we demonstrate that the sets given by these conditions are co-analytic and not Borel in the space of marked groups. We then adapt our techniques to show elementary amenable marked groups may be characterized by well-founded descriptive-set-theoretic trees, and therefore, elementary amenability is equivalent to a chain condition. Our characterization again implies the set of elementary amenable groups is co-analytic and non-Borel. As corollary, we obtain a new, non-constructive, proof of the existence of finitely generated amenable groups that are not elementary amenable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0975

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zbMATH Keywords

chain conditionsdescriptive set theoryelementary amenable groupsspace of marked groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Descriptive set theory (03E15) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Descriptive set theory (topological aspects of Borel, analytic, projective, etc. sets) (54H05) General structure theorems for groups (20E34)

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