On the isometry group of the Urysohn space

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDS027zbMATH Open1273.03136arXiv1109.3811OpenAlexW2113249217MaRDI QIDQ4907987FDOQ4907987

Authors: Katrin Tent, Martin Ziegler 

Publication date: 27 February 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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