English

Equivariant concentration in topological groups

Functional Analysis 2019-04-17 v2 Group Theory Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that, if GG is a second-countable topological group with a compatible right-invariant metric dd and (μn)nN(\mu_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}} is a sequence of compactly supported Borel probability measures on GG converging to invariance with respect to the mass transportation distance over dd and such that (sptμn,d ⁣ ⁣sptμn,μn ⁣ ⁣sptμn)nN\left(\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}, d\!\!\upharpoonright_{\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}}, \mu_{n}\!\!\upharpoonright_{\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}}\right)_{n \in \mathbb{N}} concentrates to a fully supported, compact mmmm-space (X,dX,μX)\left(X,d_{X},\mu_{X}\right), then XX is homeomorphic to a GG-invariant subspace of the Samuel compactification of GG. In particular, this confirms a conjecture by Pestov and generalizes a well-known result by Gromov and Milman on the extreme amenability of topological groups. Furthermore, we exhibit a connection between the average orbit diameter of a metrizable flow of an arbitrary amenable topological group and the limit of Gromov's observable diameters along any net of Borel probability measures UEB-converging to invariance over the group.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05379,
  title  = {Equivariant concentration in topological groups},
  author = {Friedrich Martin Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05379},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures; v2 (taking referee report into account): introduction extended, first part of Section 4 streamlined, typos corrected, some remarks added

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