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Groups not acting on compact metric spaces by homeomorphisms

Group Theory 2016-03-18 v1 Dynamical Systems General Topology

Abstract

We show that the direct sum of uncountably many non-Abelian groups does not embed into the group of homeomorphisms of a compact metric space.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05330,
  title  = {Groups not acting on compact metric spaces by homeomorphisms},
  author = {Azer Akhmedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05330},
  year   = {2016}
}

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