Some universal constructions in abstract topological dynamics

MaRDI QIDQ4379348zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vladimir G. Pestov

Publication date 25 February 1998

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/funct-an/9705003

zbMATH Keywords

actions of topological groups on compactaextremely amenable topological groupsgreatest ambituniversal minimal flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65)

Abstract: This small survey of basic universal constructions related to the actions of topological groups on compacta is centred around a new result --- an intrinsic description of extremely amenable topological groups (i.e., those having a fixed point in each compactum they act upon), solving a 1967 problem by Granirer. Another old problem whose solution (in the negative) is noted here, is a 1957 conjecture by Teleman on irreducible representations of general topological groups. Our exposition covers the greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow, as well as closely related constructions and results from representation theory. We present in a simplified fashion the known examples of extremely amenable groups and discuss their relationship with a 1969 problem by Ellis. Open questions, including those from bordering disciplines, are reviewed along the way.

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Cited in

(14)

• Ramsey-Milman phenomenon, Urysohn metric spaces, and extremely amenable groups
• Compactifications of topological groups
• Some classes of minimally almost periodic topological groups
• On extremely amenable groups of homeomorphisms
• On compactifications and the topological dynamics of definable groups
• On free actions, minimal flows, and a problem by Ellis
• Fraïssé structures and a conjecture of Furstenberg
• Connections between universal observability and topological dynamics
• Residual properties and almost equicontinuity.
• Strongly amenable semigroups and nonlinear fixed point properties
• Generalizing minimal almost periodicity via local compactness, NSS and Lie properties
• Topological weak mixing and quasi-Bohr systems
• Extreme amenability of L₀, a Ramsey theorem, and Lévy groups
• On subgroups of minimal topological groups

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