Thick, syndetic, and piecewise syndetic subsets of Fraïssé structures

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2017.03.009zbMATH Open1376.37029arXiv1608.04286OpenAlexW2963168414MaRDI QIDQ526787FDOQ526787

Andy Zucker

Publication date: 15 May 2017

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define and undertake a systematic study of thick, syndetic, and piecewise syndetic subsets of a Fra"iss'e structure. Each of these collections forms a family in the sense of Akin and Glasner [AG], and we define and study ultrafilters on each of these families, paying special attention to ultrafilters on the thick sets. In the process, we generalize many results of Bergelson, Hindman, and McCutcheon [BHM]. We also discuss some abstract questions about families implicit in the work of Akin and Glasner.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04286

zbMATH Keywords

topological dynamicstopological semigroupultrafilterFraïssé theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Descriptive set theory (03E15) Ramsey theory (05D10) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Model theory of denumerable and separable structures (03C15)

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• Fraïssé structures and a conjecture of Furstenberg
• Algebraic characterizations of some relative notions of size

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