Fixed point-free isometric actions of topological groups on Banach spaces

zbMATH Open1207.22002arXiv0804.1583MaRDI QIDQ961973FDOQ961973

Authors: Vladimir G. Pestov, L. Nguyen Van Thé 

Publication date: 1 April 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that every non-precompact topological group admits a fixed point-free continuous action by affine isometries on a suitable Banach space. Thus, precompact groups are defined by the fixed point property for affine isometric actions on Banach spaces. For separable topological groups, in the above statements it is enough to consider affine actions on one particular Banach space: the unique Banach space envelope of the universal Urysohn metric space, known as the Holmes space. At the same time, we show that Polish groups need not admit topologically proper (in particular, free) affine isometric actions on Banach spaces (nor even on complete metric spaces): this is the case for the unitary group of the separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space with strong operator topology, the infinite symmetric group, etc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1583

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zbMATH Keywords

proper actionsUrysohn metric spaceproperty (FH)precompact groupsHolmes spaceaffine isometric actionsfixed point-free actionsfree isometric actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Topological transformation groups (57S99) Representations of general topological groups and semigroups (22A25)

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