On the isometry group of the Urysohn space

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDS027MaRDI QIDQ4907987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katrin Tent, Martin Ziegler

Publication date 27 February 2013

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3811

zbMATH Keywords

simple groupautomorphism groupsUrysohn spaceisometry groupcountable structuresbounded isometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Lower separation axioms ((T_0)--(T_3), etc.) (54D10) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27) Applications of model theory (03C98) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: We give a general criterion for the (bounded) simplicity of the automorphism groups of certain countable structures and apply it to show that the isometry group of the Urysohn space modulo the normal subgroup of bounded isometries is a simple group.

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