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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.

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@article{arxiv.1502.02293,
  title  = {Topological matchings and amenability},
  author = {Friedrich Martin Schneider and Andreas Thom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02293},
  year   = {2018}
}

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v2 completely rewritten, 32 pages, no figures

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