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Recall that a definable group is `definably amenable' if it admits a translation-invariant Keisler measure. We prove a combinatorial characterization of definable amenability for groups definable in NIP theories. More specifically, given a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Atticus Stonestrom

We discuss definable compactifications and topological dynamics. For G a group definable in some structure M, we define notions of "definable" compactification of G and "definable" action of G on a compact space X (definable G-flow), where…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-12-14 Jakub Gismatullin , Davide Penazzi , Anand Pillay

We consider interpretable topological spaces and topological groups in a $p$-adically closed field $K$. We identify a special class of "admissible topologies" with topological tameness properties like generic continuity, similar to the…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Will Johnson

For a topological group G we introduce the algebra SUC(G) of strongly uniformly continuous functions. It contains the algebra WAP(G) of weakly almost periodic functions as well as the algebras LE(G) and Asp(G) of locally equicontinuous and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Eli Glasner , Michael Megrelishvili

A version of group cohomology for locally compact groups and Polish modules has previously been developed using a bar resolution restricted to measurable cochains. That theory was shown to enjoy analogs of most of the standard algebraic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Tim Austin , Calvin C. Moore

We extend some results of Carderi and Le Ma\^itre on full groups in the probability context to the infinite measure one: there exists at most one Polish group topology (refining the weak topology and coarser than the uniform topology) on an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Fabien Hoareau

In 2005, the paper "Fraiss\'e limits, Ramsey theory, and topological dynamics of automorphism groups" [KPT] by Kechris, Pestov and Todorcevic provided a powerful tool to compute an invariant of topological groups known as the universal…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Lionel Nguyen Van Thé

The Kechris-Pestov-Todorcevic correspondence connects extreme amenability of non-Archimedean Polish groups with Ramsey properties of classes of finite structures. The purpose of the present paper is to recast it as one of the instances of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Lionel Nguyen Van Thé

We identify a canonical structure J associated to any first-order theory, the {\it space of definability patterns}. It generalizes the imaginary algebraic closure in a stable theory, and the hyperimaginary bounded closure in simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Ehud Hrushovski

In this paper we further study links between concentration of measure in topological transformation groups, existence of fixed points, and Ramsey-type theorems for metric spaces. We prove that whenever the group $\Iso(\U)$ of isometries of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-09-03 Vladimir Pestov

Given a dynamical system $(X,G)$, the centralizer $C(G)$ denotes the group of all homeomorphisms of $X$ which commute with the action of $G$. This group is sometimes called the automorphism group of the dynamical system $(X,G)$. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Kostya Medynets , James P. Talisse

We study topological groups $G$ for which the universal minimal $G$-system $M(G)$, or the universal irreducible affine $G$-system $IA(G)$ are tame. We call such groups intrinsically tame and convexly intrinsically tame. These notions are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Eli Glasner , Michael Megrelishvili

We study definably amenable groups in NIP theories, and answer a question of Newelski (and also of Chernikov-Simon), by giving an example in the o-minimal context where weak generic types do not coincide with almost periodic types,…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Anand Pillay , Ningyuan Yao

In this work, we show that if $f$ is a uniformly continuous map defined over a Polish metric space, then the set of $f$-invariant measures with zero metric entropy is a $G_\delta$ set (in the weak topology). In particular, this set is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Silas L. Carvalho , Alexander Condori

We complement the characterization of the graph products of cyclic groups $G(\Gamma, \mathfrak{p})$ admitting a Polish group topology of [9] with the following result. Let $G = G(\Gamma, \mathfrak{p})$, then the following are equivalent:…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Gianluca Paolini , Saharon Shelah

For each ordinal $\alpha<\omega_1$, we introduce the class of $\alpha$-balanced Polish groups. These classes form a hierarchy that completely stratifies the space between the class of Polish groups admitting a two-side-invariant metric…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Shaun Allison , Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos

Let $M=I$ or $M=\mathbb{S}^1$ and let $k\geq 1$. We exhibit a new infinite class of Polish groups by showing that each group $\mathop{\rm Diff}_+^{k+AC}(M)$, consisting of those $C^k$ diffeomorphisms whose $k$-th derivative is absolutely…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Michael P. Cohen

Given a countable group $G$, we initiate a systematic study of the Polish spaces of all minimal and topologically transitive actions of $G$ on the Cantor space by homeomorphisms, with a focus on the existence of comeager conjugacy classes…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Michal Doucha , Julien Melleray , Todor Tsankov

For compact Hausdorff admissible right topological (CHART) group $G$, we prove $w(G)=\pi\chi(G)$. This equality is well known for compact topological groups. This implies the criteria for the metrizability of CHART groups: if $G$ is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Evgenii Reznichenko

We consider an arbitrary topological group $G$ definable in a structure $\mathcal M$, such that some basis for the topology of $G$ consists of sets definable in $\mathcal M$. To each such group $G$ we associate a compact $G$-space of…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Ya'Acov Peterzil , Sergei Starchenko