Constructions of torsion-free countable, amenable, weakly mixing groups

DOI10.4171/LEM/61-3/4-3zbMATH Open1382.20034arXiv1405.7605MaRDI QIDQ330024FDOQ330024

Authors: R. I. Grigorchuk, Rostyslav V. Kravchenko, Alexander Y. Olshanskii 

Publication date: 24 October 2016

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note, we construct torsion-free countable, amenable, weakly mixing groups, which answer a question of V. Bergelson. Some results related to verbal subgroups and crystallographic groups are also presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7605

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zbMATH Keywords

verbal subgroupwreath productminimally almost periodic grouporderable grouptorsion-free groupvariety of groupsweakly mixing groupWM group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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