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Haar-$\mathcal I$ sets: looking at small sets in Polish groups through compact glasses

General Topology 2021-11-01 v4 Group Theory

Abstract

Generalizing Christensen's notion of a Haar-null set and Darji's notion of a Haar-meager set, we introduce and study the notion of a Haar-I\mathcal I set in a Polish group. Here I\mathcal I is an ideal of subsets of some compact metrizable space KK. A Borel subset BXB\subset X of a Polish group XX is called Haar-I\mathcal I if there exists a continuous map f:KXf:K\to X such that f1(B+x)If^{-1}(B+x)\in\mathcal I for all xXx\in X. Moreover, BB is generically Haar-I\mathcal I if the set of witness functions {fC(K,X):xX    f1(B+x)I}\{f\in C(K,X):\forall x\in X\;\;f^{-1}(B+x)\in\mathcal I\} is comeager in the function space C(K,X)C(K,X). We study (generically) Haar-I\mathcal I sets in Polish groups for many concrete and abstract ideals I\mathcal I, and construct the corresponding distinguishing examples. We prove some results on Borel hull of Haar-I\mathcal I sets, generalizing results of Solecki, Elekes, Vidny\'anszky, Dole\v{z}al, Vlas\v{a}k on Borel hulls of Haar-null and Haar-meager sets. Also we establish various Steinhaus properties of the families of (generically) Haar-I\mathcal I sets in Polish groups for various ideals I\mathcal I.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06712,
  title  = {Haar-$\mathcal I$ sets: looking at small sets in Polish groups through compact glasses},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Szymon Głąb and Eliza Jabłońska and Jarosław Swaczyna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06712},
  year   = {2021}
}

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71 pages

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