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Eberlein oligomorphic groups

Logic 2017-10-23 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We study the Fourier--Stieltjes algebra of Roelcke precompact, non-archimedean, Polish groups and give a model-theoretic description of the Hilbert compactification of these groups. We characterize the family of such groups whose Fourier--Stieltjes algebra is dense in the algebra of weakly almost periodic functions: those are exactly the automorphism groups of 0\aleph_0-stable, 0\aleph_0-categorical structures. This analysis is then extended to all semitopological semigroup compactifications SS of such a group: SS is Hilbert-representable if and only if it is an inverse semigroup. We also show that every factor of the Hilbert compactification is Hilbert-representable.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05097,
  title  = {Eberlein oligomorphic groups},
  author = {Itaï Ben Yaacov and Tomás Ibarlucía and Todor Tsankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05097},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages

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