Topological matchings and amenability
Group Theory
2018-10-16 v2 Functional Analysis
General Topology
Abstract
We establish a characterization of amenability for general Hausdorff topological groups in terms of matchings with respect to finite uniform coverings. Furthermore, we prove that it suffices to just consider two-element uniform coverings. We also show that extremely amenable as well as compactly approximable topological groups satisfy a perfect matching property condition -- the latter even with regard to arbitrary uniform coverings. Finally, we prove that the automorphism group of a Fra\"iss\'e limit of a metric Fra\"iss\'e class is amenable if and only if the considered metric Fra\"iss\'e class has a certain Ramsey-type matching property.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.02293,
title = {Topological matchings and amenability},
author = {Friedrich Martin Schneider and Andreas Thom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02293},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
v2 completely rewritten, 32 pages, no figures