Prescribed graphon symmetries and flavors of rigidity

arXiv2206.11997MaRDI QIDQ6403013FDOQ6403013

Publication date: 23 June 2022

Abstract: We prove that an arbitrary compact metrizable group can be realized as the automorphism group of a graphing; this is a continuous analogue to Frucht's theorem recovering arbitrary finite groups are automorphism groups of finite graphs. The paper also contains a number of results the persistence of transitivity of a compact-group action upon passing to a limit of graphons. Call a compact group

m a t h b b G

graphon-rigid if, whenever it acts transitively on each member

G a m m a_{n}

of a convergent sequence of graphons, it also acts transitively on the limit

l i m_{n} G a m m a

. We show that for a compact Lie group

m a t h b b G

graphon rigidity is equivalent to the identity component

m a t h b b G_{0}

being semisimple; as a partial converse to a result of Lov'{a}sz and Szegedy, this is also equivalent to weak randomness: the property that the group have only finitely many irreducible representations in each dimension. Similarly, call a compact group

m a t h b b G

image-rigid if for every compact Lie group

m a t h b b H

the images of morphisms

m a t h b b G o m a t h b b H

form a closed set (of closed subgroups, in the natural topology). We prove that graphon rigidity implies image rigidity for compact groups that are either connected or profinite, and the two conditions are equivalent (and also equivalent to being torsion) for profinite abelian groups.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Spaces of measures, convergence of measures (28A33) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) Complete metric spaces (54E50) Probabilistic metric spaces (54E70) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27)

This page was built for publication: Prescribed graphon symmetries and flavors of rigidity

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6403013)