Topological groups: Basic constructions

Totally Lindelöf and totally ω-narrow paratopological groups

Some aspects of dimension theory for topological groups

It is shown that a topological group G is topologically isomorphic to the isometry group of a (complete) metric space iff G coincides with its G-delta-closure in the Rajkov completion of G (resp. if G is Rajkov-complete). It is also shown that for every Polish (resp. compact Polish; locally compact Polish) group G there is a complete (resp. proper) metric d on X inducing the topology of X such that G is isomorphic to Iso(X,d) where X = l_2 (resp. X = Q; X = Q\{point} where Q is the Hilbert cube). It is demonstrated that there are a separable Banach space E and a nonzero vector e in E such that G is isomorphic to the group of all (linear) isometries of E which leave the point e fixed. Similar results are proved for an arbitrary complete topological group.

All Hartman–Mycielski groups are minimally almost periodic

Introduction. This article is based upon a principle which is so standard that it is almost a cliche: The first step to understanding a nonlinear phenomenon is to define and study a suitable linear approximation. To be more specific, we shall describe some applications of this to the symmetry questions of topological transformation groups. Given a topological space X, let Homeo(^) denote the set of self-homeomorphisms of X. This is a group under composition of mappings. If G is an arbitrary group, then a group action of G on I is a homomorphism Homeo( X). Frequently we wish to impose some weak assumptions on <p. For example, if G is a topological group, then we might want cp to have suitable continuity properties. The usual assumption is that the map

Let G be a reflexive topological group, and Gits group of characters, endowed with the compact open topology. We prove that the evaluation mapping from Gx G into the torus T is continuous if and only if G is locally compact. This is an analogue of a well-known theorem of Arens on admissible topologies on C(X) . DEFINITIONS AND REMARKS Let X, Y be topological spaces, and let Z be a subset of yX . A topology on Z is said to be admissible if the evaluation mapping from the product Z x X into Y, defined by w(f, x) = f(x), is continuous. Let (S, V) = {f E Z; f(S) C V}. The family {(S, V)}, where S runs over the collection of all compact subsets of X and V runs over a basis of open sets in Y, is a subbase for the compact open topology on Z. An admissible topology on Z must be finer than the compact open topology [8]. A result of Arens states that the existence of a coarsest admissible topology for the class of real continuous functions on a completely regular space X is equivalent to X being locally compact [1]. In this paper we are interested in reflexive topological groups. Answering in the negative a question of Megrelishvili [7], we will see that the evaluation map for those groups need not be continuous. In fact, as specified in the theorem, the continuity of the evaluation characterizes locally compact Hausdorff abelian groups among reflexive groups. We prove this result by means of convergence spaces. For an account of theory of convergence spaces the reader is referred to [3, 4]. We only give here needed definitions. Let G be a Hausdorff topological abelian group, and let FG be the set of all continuous homomorphisms from G into the unidimensional torus T. If addition is defined pointwise in FG, it becomes an abelian group. The continuous Received by the editors October 5, 1993 and, in revised form, April 25, 1994; the contents of this paper were presented to the First Ibero-American Conference on Topology and its Applications in Benicassim, Spain, on March 28-30, 1995. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 22A05.

1. In view of the recent work on topological groups it is natural to consider the situation which arises when such groups act as transformation groups on various types of spaces. Such a study is begun here from the point of view of almost periodic transformation groups, the definition of which is suggested by von Neumann's paper on almost periodic functions in a group.t Compact topological transformation groups are a special case of almost periodic transformation groups, at least for a rather wide class of spaces. The paper concerns itself chiefly with the nature of the minimal closed invariant sets of such groups. There are some results for general spaces but the main results are for Euclidean spaces and more particularly for threedimensional Euclidean spaces. One of the most interesting theorems states that if a compact one-dimensional group acts on three-space in such a way that its orbits are uniformly bounded in diameter, then every point of the space is fixed under the group, so that if such a group is to act in a nontrivial manner the diameters of its orbits must be unbounded. Under some restrictions a similar theorem is proved for one-parameter almost periodic groups. Furthermore it is shown that for this latter class of groups, many of the orbits must actually be simple closed curves if they have one-dimensional closures. 2. The group considered here will be denoted by G. It will be subjected to various conditions as the occasion demands but it will always be Abelian. In case it is the group of real numbers, it will be spoken of as a one-parameter group; in case it is the real numbers reduced modulo one, it will be spoken of as the circle group. The space on which the group acts will be denoted by R. It will be specialized in various ways, but in any case it will always be a locally compact metric space. If x and y are two points of R, the distance between them will be denoted by d(x, y).

A study on weakly Lindelöf (para)topological groups with a q-point and m([formula omitted])-factorizability

We prove that, if $G$ is a second-countable topological group with a compatible right-invariant metric $d$ and $(\mu_{n})_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ is a sequence of compactly supported Borel probability measures on $G$ converging to invariance with respect to the mass transportation distance over $d$ and such that $\left(\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}, d\!\!\upharpoonright_{\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}}, \mu_{n}\!\!\upharpoonright_{\mathrm{spt} \, \mu_{n}}\right)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ concentrates to a fully supported, compact $mm$-space $\left(X,d_{X},\mu_{X}\right)$, then $X$ is homeomorphic to a $G$-invariant subspace of the Samuel compactification of $G$. In particular, this confirms a conjecture by Pestov and generalizes a well-known result by Gromov and Milman on the extreme amenability of topological groups. Furthermore, we exhibit a connection between the average orbit diameter of a metrizable flow of an arbitrary amenable topological group and the limit of Gromov's observable diameters along any net of Borel probability measures UEB-converging to invariance over the group.

We establish a general framework for representability of a metric group on a (well-behaved) class of Banach spaces. More precisely, let G \mathcal {G} be a topological group, and A \mathcal {A} a unital symmetric C ∗ C^* -subalgebra of U C ( G ) \mathrm {UC}(\mathcal {G}) , the algebra of bounded uniformly continuous functions on G \mathcal {G} . Generalizing the notion of a stable metric, we study A \mathcal {A} -metrics δ \delta , i.e., the function δ ( e , ⋅ ) \delta (e, \cdot ) belongs to A \mathcal {A} ; the case A = W A P ( G ) \mathcal {A}=W\hskip -0.7mm A\hskip -0.2mm P(\mathcal {G}) , the algebra of weakly almost periodic functions on G \mathcal {G} , recovers stability. If the topology of G G is induced by a left invariant metric d d , we prove that A \mathcal {A} determines the topology of G \mathcal {G} if and only if d d is uniformly equivalent to a left invariant A \mathcal {A} -metric. As an application, we show that the additive group of C [ 0 , 1 ] C[0,1] is not reflexively representable; this is a new proof of Megrelishvili [ Topological transformation groups: selected topics , Elsevier, 2007, Question 6.7] (the problem was already solved by Ferri and Galindo [Studia Math. 193 (2009), pp. 99–108] with different methods and later the results were generalized by Yaacov, Berenstein, and Ferri [Math. Z. 267 (2011), pp.129–138]). Let now G \mathcal {G} be a metric group, and assume A ⊆ L U C ( G ) \mathcal {A}\subseteq \mathrm {LUC}(\mathcal {G}) , the algebra of bounded left uniformly continuous functions on G \mathcal {G} , is a unital C ∗ C^* -algebra which is the uniform closure of coefficients of representations of G \mathcal {G} on members of F \mathscr {F} , where F \mathscr {F} is a class of Banach spaces closed under ℓ 2 \ell _2 -direct sums. We prove that A \mathcal {A} determines the topology of G \mathcal {G} if and only if G \mathcal {G} embeds into the isometry group of a member of F \mathscr {F} , equipped with the weak operator topology. As applications, we obtain characterizations of unitary and reflexive representability.

This book provides a general framework for doing geometric group theory for many non-locally-compact topological transformation groups that arise in mathematical practice, including homeomorphism and diffeomorphism groups of manifolds, isometry groups of separable metric spaces and automorphism groups of countable structures. Using Roe's framework of coarse structures and spaces, the author defines a natural coarse geometric structure on all topological groups. This structure is accessible to investigation, especially in the case of Polish groups, and often has an explicit description, generalising well-known structures in familiar cases including finitely generated discrete groups, compactly generated locally compact groups and Banach spaces. In most cases, the coarse geometric structure is metrisable and may even be refined to a canonical quasimetric structure on the group. The book contains many worked examples and sufficient introductory material to be accessible to beginning graduate students. An appendix outlines several open problems in this young and rich theory.

1. Introduction.Let S be a locally compact semigroup with a dense maximal subgroup G.We ask the following question: When is G a topological group under the induced topology?It was proved recently by P. S. Mostert [8] that in general G is not a topological group.However, there are several good reasons motivating the study of such a problem.First, for an arbitrary locally compact semigroup, the closure of the maximal subgroup containing an idempotent forms a locally compact semigroup.If we know this maximal subgroup is a topological group, then it is a locally compact topological group.(This fact will be proved in the following paragraph.)By our rather good knowledge of locally compact topological groups, we can obtain information about the structure of this locally compact semigroup.Second, if we look at this problem from the point of view of transformation groups, we have a group G acting on a locally compact topological space.Naturally, we would like this group to be topologized so that it is a topological group.It is known that the weakest topology for G to be a topological group is the g-topology [1].It is somewhat harder to deal with the g-topology than with the fc-topology, but under some conditions the ^-topology will coincide with the fe-topology.Among the known conditions, the local compactness of the group seems most interesting.If one tries to generalize such a condition, it is rather natural to ask the following : If G is a group of homeomorphisms of X onto X, and the closure of G is locally compact in the fc-topology, does the induced topology of G coincide with the g-topology?Third, in the past few years there have been several papers about such questions : What is the relationship between the algebraic structure and the topological structure?When can one strengthen the topological structure so that even under weak conditions the algebraic operations will be continuous in a certain sense?For instance, in topological groups, if the group space is locally compact, and if the multiplication is separately continuous with respect to the topology of the space, then the group is a topological group.We are able to prove the same theorem when the space is second countable and second category without the assumption of local compactness [9].Now, our present problem arises quite

A large class of function spaces, under the topology of pointwise convergence, are shown to be of first category.

Let {mathbb {K}} be a non-trivially valued non-Archimedean complete field. Let ell _{infty }({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}) [ell _c({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}});c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}})] be the space of all sequences in {mathbb {K}} that are bounded [relatively compact; convergent to 0] with the topology of pointwise convergence (i.e. with the topology induced from {mathbb {K}}^{{mathbb {N}}}). Let X be an infinite ultraregular space and let C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) be the space of all continuous functions from X to {mathbb {K}} endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence. It is easy to see that C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) is metrizable if and only if X is countable. We show that for any X [with an infinite compact subset] the space C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) has an infinite-dimensional [closed] metrizable subspace isomorphic to c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}). Next we prove that C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) has a quotient isomorphic to c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}) if and only if it has a complemented subspace isomorphic to c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}). It follows that for any extremally disconnected compact space X the space C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) has no quotient isomorphic to the space c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}); in particular, for any infinite discrete space D the space C_p(beta D, {mathbb {K}}) has no quotient isomorphic c_0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}). Finally we investigate the question for which X the space C_p(X,{mathbb {K}}) has an infinite-dimensional metrizable quotient. We show that for any infinite discrete space D the space C_p(beta D, {mathbb {K}}) has an infinite-dimensional metrizable quotient isomorphic to some subspace ell _c^0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}) of {mathbb {K}}^{{mathbb {N}}}. If {mathbb {K}} is locally compact then ell _c^0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}})=ell _{infty }({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}). If |n1_{{mathbb {K}}}|ne 1 for some nin {mathbb {N}}, then ell _c^0({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}})=ell _c ({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {K}}). In particular, C_p(beta D, {mathbb {Q}}_q) has a quotient isomorphic to ell _{infty }({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {Q}}_q) and C_p(beta D, {mathbb {C}}_q) has a quotient isomorphic to ell _c({mathbb {N}}, {mathbb {C}}_q) for any prime number q.

In this paper we present symbolic criteria for invariant operators on compact topological groups $G$ characterising the Schatten-von Neumann classes $S_{r}(L^{2}(G))$ for all $0<r\leq\infty$. Since it is known that for pseudo-differential operators criteria in terms of kernels may be less effective (Carleman's example), our criteria are given in terms of the operators' symbols defined on the noncommutative analogue of the phase space $G\times\hat{G}$, where $G$ is a compact topological (or Lie) group and $\hat{G}$ is its unitary dual. We also show results concerning general non-invariant operators as well as Schatten properties on Sobolev spaces. A trace formula is derived for operators in the Schatten class $S_{1}(L^{2}(G))$. Examples are given for Bessel potentials associated to sub-Laplacians (sums of squares) on compact Lie groups, as well as for powers of the sub-Laplacian and for other non-elliptic operators on SU(2)$\simeq\mathbb S^3$ and on SO(3).