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Some Results on Polish Groups

Logic 2019-11-12 v4

Abstract

We prove that no quantifier-free formula in the language of group theory can define the 1\aleph_1-half graph in a Polish group, thus generalising some results from [6]. We then pose some questions on the space of groups of automorphisms of a given Borel complete class, and observe that this space must contain at least one uncountable group. Finally, we prove some results on the structure of the group of automorphisms of a locally finite group: firstly, we prove that it is not the case that every group of automorphisms of a graph of power λ\lambda is the group of automorphism of a locally finite group of power λ\lambda; secondly, we conjecture that the group of automorphisms of a locally finite group of power λ\lambda has a locally finite subgroup of power λ\lambda, and reduce the problem to a problem on pp-groups, thus settling the conjecture in the case λ=0\lambda = \aleph_0.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12855,
  title  = {Some Results on Polish Groups},
  author = {Gianluca Paolini and Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12855},
  year   = {2019}
}
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