On extremely amenable groups of homeomorphisms

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Authors Vladimir V. Uspenskij

Publication date 18 June 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5785, http://at.yorku.ca/b/a/a/o/31.htm

zbMATH Keywords

exponentExtremely amenable groupsgreatest ambitminimal flowVietoris topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15) Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Abstract: A topological group $G$ is {em extremely amenable} if every compact $G$-space has a $G$-fixed point. Let $X$ be compact and $GsubsetmathrmHomeo(X)$. We prove that the following are equivalent: (1) $G$ is extremely amenable; (2) every minimal closed $G$-invariant subset of $expR$ is a singleton, where $R$ is the closure of the set of all graphs of $ginG$ in the space $exp(X^2)$ ($exp$ stands for the space of closed subsets); (3) for each $n=1,2,\mathrm{...}$ there is a closed $G$-invariant subset $Y_n$ of $(expX{)}^n$ such that $cu{p}_{n=1}^{i}nfty{Y}_n$ contains arbitrarily fine covers of $X$ and for every $nge1$ every minimal closed $G$-invariant subset of $exp{Y}_n$ is a singleton. This yields an alternative proof of Pestov's theorem that the group of all order-preserving self-homeomorphisms of the Cantor middle-third set (or of the interval $[0,1]$) is extremely amenable.

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