Isometry groups and countable groups with the L\'{e}vy property
Abstract
A topological group is said to have the L\'evy property if it admits a dense subgroup which is decomposed as the union of an increasing sequence of compact subgroups of which exhibits concentration of measure in the sense of Gromov and Milman. We say that has the strong L\'evy property whenever the sequence is comprised of finite subgroups. In this paper we give several new classes of isometry groups and countable topological groups with the strong L\'evy property. We prove that if is a countable distance value set with arbitrarily small values, then , the isometry group of the Urysohn -metric space equipped with the pointwise convergence topology, where is equipped with the metric topology, has the strong L\'evy property. We also prove that if is a Lipschitz continuous signature, then , the isometry group of the unique separable Urysohn -structure, has the strong L\'evy property. In addition, our approach shows that any countable omnigenous locally finite group can be given a topology with the L\'evy property. As a consequence to our results, we obtain at least continuum many pairwise nonisomorphic countable topological groups or isometry groups with the strong L\'evy property.
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@article{arxiv.2510.18919,
title = {Isometry groups and countable groups with the L\'{e}vy property},
author = {Wei Dai and Su Gao and Víctor Hugo Yañez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18919},
year = {2025}
}