Lie groups in the symmetric group: reducing Ulam's problem to the simple case

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.11.006MaRDI QIDQ6183573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Annalisa Conversano, Nicolas Monod

Publication date 4 January 2024

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06498

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupLie groupfaithful action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07)

Abstract: Ulam asked whether all Lie groups can be represented faithfully on a countable set. We establish a reduction of Ulam's problem to the case of simple Lie groups. In particular, we solve the problem for all solvable Lie groups and more generally Lie groups with a linear Levi component. It follows that every amenable locally compact second countable group acts faithfully on a countable set.

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