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The Roelcke compactification of groups of homeomorphisms

General Topology 2021-08-27 v1

Abstract

Let X be a zero-dimensional compact space such that all non-empty clopen subsets of X are homeomorphic to each other, and let H(X) be the group of all self-homeomorphisms of X with the compact-open topology. We prove that the Roelcke compactification of H(X) can be identified with the semigroup of all closed relations on X whose domain and range are equal to X. We use this to prove that the group H(X) is topologically simple and minimal, in the sense that it does not admit a strictly coarser Hausdorff group topology.

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@article{arxiv.math/0004140,
  title  = {The Roelcke compactification of groups of homeomorphisms},
  author = {V. V. Uspenskij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0004140},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages. To appear in Topology Appl