The structure theory of nilspaces. I

DOI10.1007/S11854-020-0093-8zbMATH Open1442.37020arXiv1605.08945OpenAlexW3019228894MaRDI QIDQ2177969FDOQ2177969

Authors: Yonatan Gutman, Freddie Manners, Péter P. Varjú 

Publication date: 7 May 2020

Published in: Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper forms the first part of a series by the authors [GMV2,GMV3] concerning the structure theory of nilspaces of Antol'in Camarena and Szegedy. A nilspace is a compact space $X$ together with closed collections of cubes $C^n(X)subseteq{X}^{2^n}$, $n=1,2,ldots$ satisfying some natural axioms. Antol'in Camarena and Szegedy proved that from these axioms it follows that (certain) nilspaces are isomorphic (in a strong sense) to an inverse limit of nilmanifolds. The aim of our project is to provide a new self-contained treatment of this theory and give new applications to topological dynamics. This paper provides an introduction to the project from the point of view of applications to higher order Fourier analysis. We define and explain the basic definitions and constructions related to cubespaces and nilspaces and develop the weak structure theory, which is the first stage of the proof of the main structure theorem for nilspaces. Vaguely speaking, this asserts that a nilspace can be built as a finite tower of extensions where each of the successive fibers is a compact abelian group. We also make some modest innovations and extensions to this theory. In particular, we consider a class of maps that we term fibrations, which are essentially equivalent to what are termed fiber-surjective morphisms by Anatol'in Camarena and Szegedy, and we formulate and prove a relative analogue of the weak structure theory alluded to above for these maps. These results find applications elsewhere in the project.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08945

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zbMATH Keywords

cocyclefibrationLie groupnilspace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Local Lie groups (22E05) Dynamics in general topological spaces (37B02)

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