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Isometry groups and countable groups with the L\'{e}vy property

Group Theory 2025-10-23 v1

Abstract

A topological group GG is said to have the L\'evy property if it admits a dense subgroup which is decomposed as the union of an increasing sequence of compact subgroups G={Gi:iN}\mathcal{G}=\{G_i:i\in\mathbb{N}\} of GG which exhibits concentration of measure in the sense of Gromov and Milman. We say that GG has the strong L\'evy property whenever the sequence G\mathcal{G} is comprised of finite subgroups. In this paper we give several new classes of isometry groups and countable topological groups with the strong L\'evy property. We prove that if Δ\Delta is a countable distance value set with arbitrarily small values, then \mboxIso(UΔ)\mbox{Iso}(\mathbb{U}_\Delta), the isometry group of the Urysohn Δ\Delta-metric space equipped with the pointwise convergence topology, where UΔ\mathbb{U}_\Delta is equipped with the metric topology, has the strong L\'evy property. We also prove that if L\mathcal{L} is a Lipschitz continuous signature, then \mboxIso(UL)\mbox{Iso}(\mathbb{U}_{\mathcal{L}}), the isometry group of the unique separable Urysohn L\mathcal{L}-structure, has the strong L\'evy property. In addition, our approach shows that any countable omnigenous locally finite group can be given a topology with the L\'evy property. As a consequence to our results, we obtain at least continuum many pairwise nonisomorphic countable topological groups or isometry groups with the strong L\'evy property.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18919,
  title  = {Isometry groups and countable groups with the L\'{e}vy property},
  author = {Wei Dai and Su Gao and Víctor Hugo Yañez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18919},
  year   = {2025}
}
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