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Maximal equivariant compactifications

General Topology 2022-02-01 v1 Dynamical Systems Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let GG be a locally compact group. Then for every GG-space XX the maximal GG-proximity βG\beta_G can be characterized by the maximal topological proximity β\beta as follows: A βG BVNe   VA β VB. A \ \overline{\beta_G} \ B \Leftrightarrow \exists V \in N_e \ \ \ VA \ \overline{\beta} \ VB. Here, βG ⁣:XβGX\beta_G \colon X \to \beta_G X is the maximal GG-compactification of XX (which is an embedding for locally compact GG), VV is a neighborhood of ee and A βG BA \ \overline{\beta_G} \ B means that the closures of AA and BB do not meet in βGX\beta_G X. Note that the local compactness of GG is essential. This theorem comes as a corollary of a general result about maximal U\mathcal{U}-uniform GG-compactifications for a useful wide class of uniform structures U\mathcal{U} on GG-spaces for not necessarily locally compact groups GG. It helps, in particular, to derive the following result. Let (U1,d)(\mathbb{U}_1,d) be the Urysohn sphere and G=Iso(U1,d)G=Iso(\mathbb{U}_1,d) is its isometry group with the pointwise topology. Then for every pair of subsets A,BA,B in U1\mathbb{U}_1, we have A βG BVNe   d(VA,VB)>0. A \ \overline{\beta_G} \ B \Leftrightarrow \exists V \in N_e \ \ \ d(VA,VB) > 0. More generally, the same is true for any 0\aleph_0-categorical metric GG-structure (M,d)(M,d), where G:=Aut(M)G:=Aut(M) is its automorphism group.

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@article{arxiv.2201.13426,
  title  = {Maximal equivariant compactifications},
  author = {Michael Megrelishvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13426},
  year   = {2022}
}

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