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Aut(U_Q^<) is extremely amenable
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice). The group of order-and-metric automorphisms of the rational ordered Urysohn metric space, with the topology of pointwise convergence on the underlying countable set given the discrete topology, is extremely amenable, and so is every finite point stabiliser required by the finite-support permutation model of Corson's ordered-rational permutation model.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The age of , namely the finite ordered rational metric spaces, and a finite support .
The Axiom of Choice is assumed (The Axiom of Choice).
Nešetřil's Ramsey theorem says that the class of finite ordered rational metric spaces is a Ramsey class: for all and every positive integer , there is such that Thus every -colouring of the copies of in this extension has a copy whose copies of are monochromatic (Finite colourings of -element subsets, monochromatic sets, and the arrow notations and ). No self-arrow is asserted.
The KPT correspondence: the automorphism group of a Fraïssé structure whose finite substructures are rigid and whose age is Ramsey is extremely amenable (Kechris--Pestov--Todorcevic, Theorem 4.7; Theorem 6.16 gives this ordered-rational-Urysohn instance). This is the external KPT theorem, not a conclusion of the BPI criterion. Its use is the literature prerequisite specified by this item’s manifest; it is verified against the source cited above.
Under AC, an arbitrary product of compact spaces is compact (Tychonoff's theorem: an arbitrary product of compact spaces is compact in the product topology, assuming the Axiom of Choice), and a closed subspace of a compact space is compact (A closed subspace of a compact space is compact, and a finite union of compact subspaces is compact). Products and their coordinate topology are as in The product set of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space.
For continuous maps into a Hausdorff space, the agreement set is closed (For continuous with Hausdorff the agreement set is closed in , Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not).
A basic neighbourhood in a product topology restricts only finitely many coordinates (The product set of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space).
A finite ordered rational metric space is rigid: an isomorphism onto itself preserving the order and all distances is the identity, because the least point must be fixed, then the least remaining point, and so on through the finite order. The order alone suffices; the metric has the meaning of Metric space: iff , symmetry, and the triangle inequality; pseudometric and ultrametric.
Proof
The age of is the class of finite ordered rational metric spaces, and is its Fraïssé limit, since it is countable, universal and homogeneous for that class by Corson's ordered-rational permutation model. Encode rational distances by a binary relation for each rational value, together with the order relation; this is a countable relational language. Its automorphism group is closed in the permutation group of the underlying countable set: failure to preserve a relation is witnessed by a finite tuple and remains a failure on a basic neighbourhood.
Every finite ordered rational metric space is rigid by [L1], and the age is a Ramsey class by [F1]; hence the hypotheses of the KPT criterion [F2] hold for the Fraïssé limit , and is extremely amenable.
Put and . In the pointwise-convergence topology is an open subgroup of , since fixing the finitely many points of is a basic identity neighbourhood.
Let be a nonempty compact Hausdorff -flow. Inside the product , define the coinduced space It is nonempty: AC chooses one representative of every left -orbit in ; fix one , assign that same value at every representative, and then the displayed rule extends it uniquely to that orbit.
The space is closed in : for fixed , the equation is an equaliser of two continuous coordinate maps and is closed because is Hausdorff. Arbitrary intersections of these closed equalisers are closed. Hence [F3] makes compact with its subspace topology. It is Hausdorff: two distinct functions differ at some coordinate, where disjoint open neighbourhoods in pull back to disjoint cylinder neighbourhoods in .
Define a -action on by The defining equivariance of is preserved, since . It is a left action: evaluated at is , and the identity acts trivially. This action is continuous. Indeed, at and for each of finitely many output coordinates , openness of gives a neighbourhood on which ; then and . Continuity of , of the -action, and the product topology at the finitely many fixed coordinates therefore give joint continuity.
Extreme amenability of from [step 2.1] gives a -fixed . The right-translation action then makes constant, since for every . For , the defining equation for gives , so is an -fixed point of .
Thus every nonempty compact Hausdorff -flow has a fixed point, so is extremely amenable. Since was arbitrary and gives the whole group, the stated group and all required finite point stabilisers are extremely amenable.
Remarks
The stabiliser conclusion supplies the hypothesis of Extreme amenability yields BPI in finite-support permutation models. That consumer proves BPI from extreme amenability and is not a source for the KPT correspondence.
Depends on
- Corson's ordered-rational permutation model
- Extreme amenability yields BPI in finite-support permutation models
- Metric space: $d(x,y) = 0$ iff $x = y$, symmetry, and the triangle inequality; pseudometric and ultrametric
- Finite colourings of $k$-element subsets, monochromatic sets, and the arrow notations $N\to(s,t)^2$ and $N\to(r)^k_c$
- The Axiom of Choice
- Tychonoff's theorem: an arbitrary product of compact spaces is compact in the product topology, assuming the Axiom of Choice
- The product set $\prod_{i \in I} X_i$ of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space
- A closed subspace of a compact space is compact, and a finite union of compact subspaces is compact
- Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not
- For continuous $f, g : Z \to Y$ with $Y$ Hausdorff the agreement set $\{ z \in Z : f(z) = g(z) \}$ is closed in $Z$
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Sources
- Samuel Corson, The Independence of Stone's Theorem from the Boolean Prime Ideal Theorem (standard reference, not scraped)
- Jaroslav Nešetřil, Metric spaces are Ramsey (standard reference, not scraped)
- Kechris, Pestov, and Todorcevic, Fraïssé limits, Ramsey theory, and topological dynamics of automorphism groups (standard reference, not scraped)