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Polish spaces for countable and separable structures through quotient encodings

Logic 2026-04-20 v1 Functional Analysis Group Theory K-Theory and Homology Operator Algebras

Abstract

We develop a unified framework for locating natural properties of algebraic and analytic structures within the Borel hierarchy. Objects are presented as quotients of a universal generator and definability is read directly from the quotient data. For separable Banach-type structures (Banach algebras, CC^*-algebras, Banach lattices, TROs) the kernel space is Polish under the Wijsman topology, and the quotient-norm functional Kx+KK\mapsto \|x+K\| is continuous, yielding a uniform definability scheme whose Borel ranks are bounded by quantifier alternation depth. For countable algebraic structures (groups, rings, lattices) we work on compact Polish spaces of congruences where atomic predicates are clopen. We obtain explicit Borel upper bounds: in the \emph{unital} CC^*-algebra coding based on Cmax(F)C^*_{\max}(F_\infty), stable finiteness is closed, nuclearity is Borel, simplicity is~GδG_\delta, AF-ness lies in~Π30\Pi^0_3, nuclear dimension~n\le n lies in~Π30\Pi^0_3, and for fixed exact~DD, DD-absorption is analytic. For countable groups, soficity is~GδG_\delta; for abelian groups, slenderness is~Π30\Pi^0_3. We give an internal Borel coding of the K0K_0-assignment in the quotient/Wijsman framework; for each fixed coordinate the corresponding section is FσF_\sigma, and suspension together with Bott periodicity yields Borel codings of all higher KK-groups. We also show that several bounds are optimal (Σ20\Sigma^0_2- and Π20\Pi^0_2-complete). To calibrate the method's reach, we exhibit a Π11\Pi^1_1-complete property (separable dual in the commutative CC^*-setting), provably outside the Borel hierarchy.

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@article{arxiv.2604.15843,
  title  = {Polish spaces for countable and separable structures through quotient encodings},
  author = {Tomasz Kania},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15843},
  year   = {2026}
}

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74 pp

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