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Actions of tame abelian product groups

Logic 2021-05-12 v1

Abstract

A Polish group GG is tame if for any continuous action of GG, the corresponding orbit equivalence relation is Borel. When G=nΓnG = \prod_n \Gamma_n for countable abelian Γn\Gamma_n, Solecki (1995) gave a characterization for when GG is tame. Ding and Gao (2017) showed that for such GG, the orbit equivalence relation must in fact be potentially Π60\mathbf{\Pi}^0_6, while conjecturing that the optimal bound could be Π30\mathbf{\Pi}^0_3. We show that the optimal bound is D(Π50)D(\mathbf{\Pi}^0_5) by constructing an action of such a group GG which is not potentially Π50\mathbf{\Pi}^0_5, and show how to modify the analysis of Ding and Gao to get this slightly better upper bound. It follows, using the results of Hjorth, Kechris, and Louvaeu (1998), that this is the optimal bound for the potential complexity of actions of tame abelian product groups. Our lower-bound analysis involves forcing over models of set theory where choice fails for sequences of finite sets.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05144,
  title  = {Actions of tame abelian product groups},
  author = {Shaun Allison and Assaf Shani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05144},
  year   = {2021}
}