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Automorphism groups of countable structures and groups of measurable functions

Logic 2018-08-27 v5 Group Theory

Abstract

Let GG be a topological group and let μ\mu be the Lebesgue measure on the interval [0,1][0,1]. We let L0(G)L_0(G) to be the topological group of all μ\mu-equivalence classes of μ\mu-measurable functions defined on [0,1] with values in GG, taken with the pointwise multiplication and the topology of convergence in measure. We show that for a Polish group GG, if L0(G)L_0(G) has ample generics, then GG has ample generics, thus the converse to a result of Ka\"{i}chouh and Le Ma\^{i}tre. We further study topological similarity classes and conjugacy classes for many groups Aut(M){\rm{Aut}}(M) and L0(Aut(M))L_0({\rm{Aut}}(M)), where MM is a countable structure. We make a connection between the structure of groups generated by tuples, the Hrushovski property, and the structure of their topological similarity classes. In particular, we prove the trichotomy that for every tuple fˉ \bar{f} of Aut(M){\rm{Aut}}(M), where MM is a countable structure such that algebraic closures of finite sets are finite, either the countable group fˉ\langle \bar{f} \rangle is precompact, or it is discrete, or the similarity class of fˉ\bar{f} is meager, in particular the conjugacy class of fˉ\bar{f} is meager. We prove an analogous trichotomy for groups L0(Aut(M))L_0({\rm{Aut}}(M)).

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@article{arxiv.1612.03106,
  title  = {Automorphism groups of countable structures and groups of measurable functions},
  author = {Aleksandra Kwiatkowska and Maciej Malicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03106},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Following a referee's suggestion, we split the version 4 of this article into two. This article is based on Sections 2 and 3 there. Article accepted to Israel Journal of Mathematics