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Representing Polish groupoids via metric structures

Logic 2019-08-12 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We prove that every open σ\sigma-locally Polish groupoid GG is Borel equivalent to the groupoid of models on the Urysohn sphere U\mathbb{U} of an Lω1ω\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1\omega}-sentence in continuous logic. In particular, the orbit equivalence relations of such groupoids are up to Borel bireducibility precisely those of Polish group actions, answering a question of Lupini. Analogously, every non-Archimedean (i.e., every unit morphism has a neighborhood basis of open subgroupoids) open quasi-Polish groupoid is Borel equivalent to the groupoid of models on N\mathbb{N} of an Lω1ω\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1\omega}-sentence in discrete logic. The proof in fact gives a topological representation of GG as the groupoid of isomorphisms between a "continuously varying" family of structures over the space of objects of GG, constructed via a topological Yoneda-like lemma of Moerdijk for localic groupoids and its metric analog. Other ingredients in our proof include the Lopez-Escobar theorem for continuous logic, a uniformization result for full Borel functors between open quasi-Polish groupoids, a uniform Borel version of Kat\v{e}tov's construction of U\mathbb{U}, groupoid versions of the Pettis and Birkhoff--Kakutani theorems, and a development of the theory of non-Hausdorff topometric spaces and their quotients.

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@article{arxiv.1908.03268,
  title  = {Representing Polish groupoids via metric structures},
  author = {Ruiyuan Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03268},
  year   = {2019}
}

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70 pages

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