Invariant uniformization
Abstract
Standard results in descriptive set theory provide sufficient conditions for a Borel set to admit a Borel uniformization, namely, when has "small" sections or "large" sections. We consider an invariant analogue of these results: Given a Borel equivalence relation and an -invariant Borel set with "small" or "large" sections, does admit an -invariant Borel uniformization? For a given Borel equivalence relation , we show that every -invariant Borel set with "small" or "large" sections admits an -invariant Borel uniformization if and only if is smooth. We also compute the definable complexity of counterexamples in the case where is not smooth, using category, measure, and Ramsey-theoretic methods. We provide two new proofs of a dichotomy of Miller classifying the pairs such that admits an -invariant uniformization, for a Borel equivalence relation and a Borel -invariant set with countable sections. In the process, we prove an -dimensional dichotomy, generalizing dichotomies of Miller and Lecomte. We also show that the set of pairs such that has "large" sections and admits an -invariant Borel uniformization is -complete; in particular, there is no analog of Miller's dichotomy for with "large" sections. Finally, we consider a less strict notion of invariant uniformization, where we select a countable nonempty subset of each section instead of a single point.
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@article{arxiv.2405.15111,
title = {Invariant uniformization},
author = {Alexander S. Kechris and Michael Wolman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15111},
year = {2025}
}
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47 pages