English

Stable functions and F{\o}lner's Theorem

Dynamical Systems 2025-06-18 v3 Combinatorics Group Theory Logic

Abstract

We show that if GG is an amenable group and AGA\subseteq G has positive upper Banach density, then there is an identity neighborhood BB in the Bohr topology on GG that is almost contained in AA1AA^{-1} in the sense that B\AA1B\backslash AA^{-1} has upper Banach density 00. This generalizes the abelian case (due to F{\o}lner) and the countable case (due to Beiglb\"{o}ck, Bergelson, and Fish). The proof is indirectly based on local stable group theory in continuous logic. The main ingredients are Grothendieck's double-limit characterization of relatively weakly compact sets in spaces of continuous functions, along with results of Ellis and Nerurkar on the topological dynamics of weakly almost periodic flows.

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@article{arxiv.2410.13766,
  title  = {Stable functions and F{\o}lner's Theorem},
  author = {Gabriel Conant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13766},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, subsection 4.5 added, final version following referee report

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