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Second-countable locally compact Hausdorff spaces are Polish, and homogeneous quotients are standard Borel

Statement

Assume AC. Every second-countable locally compact Hausdorff space is Polish, hence standard Borel. Consequently, if G is a second-countable locally compact Hausdorff topological group and H≤G is a closed subgroup, then the homogeneous space G/H with its quotient topology is Polish and the quotient Borel structure together with the left action G×G/H→G/H is a standard Borel G-space with Borel action.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: AC, a second-countable LCH space X; later a second-countable LCH group G and a closed subgroup H≤G.

[F2]

AC implies DC and DC implies Countable Choice (AC implies DC implies countable choice); AC implies the ultrafilter lemma, as recorded by the locally proved upper bound in the choice ledger.

[F4]

Every locally compact Hausdorff space is Čech-complete (Every locally compact Hausdorff space is Čech-complete), and a metrizable space is Čech-complete if and only if it is completely metrizable (Under the ultrafilter lemma and the Axiom of Choice, a metrizable space is Čech-complete exactly when it is completely metrizable).

[F5]

For a completely metrizable space, separability is equivalent to second countability; a Polish space is a separable completely metrizable space, and a standard Borel space is a measurable space Borel isomorphic to a Polish space (For completely metrizable spaces, the separable and second-countable definitions of Polish space agree under countable choice, Polish spaces are separable completely metrizable spaces, Standard Borel spaces).

[F6]

If H is closed in an LCH group G, then G/H with the quotient topology is locally compact Hausdorff and the quotient map p:G→G/H is open; every compact subset of G/H lies in p(K) for a compact K⊆G (Compact lifts and averaging onto C_c(G/H), Left and right cosets gH and Hg of a subgroup, The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection, Topological group: multiplication and inversion are continuous).

[F7]

Multiplication G×G→G is continuous, and the left action of a group on a quotient by a subgroup is induced by it (Topological group: multiplication and inversion are continuous, Left group actions, transitive actions, and faithful actions, Left and right cosets gH and Hg of a subgroup).

Proof

technique · direct

Given: AC; a second-countable LCH space X, later a second-countable LCH group G with closed subgroup H.

1.1F1

Let B be a countable base of X and let Bc be the members of B whose closure is compact. This is a base: given x and an open U∋x, [F1] yields an open W with x∈W⊆W‾⊆U and W‾ compact, and then some B∈B satisfies x∈B⊆W, so B‾⊆W‾ is compact and B∈Bc. Hence every point of X lies in a member of Bc, whose closure is compact, and the closures of the countably many members of Bc cover X; thus X is a countable union of compact sets.

1.2F1F3

X is regular by [F1] and T1 because it is Hausdorff, so with its countable base it is metrizable by [F3]; fix a compatible metric d.

2.1step 1.2F2F4F5

X is Čech-complete by [F4], and being metrizable it is completely metrizable by the equivalence in [F4]; the choice hypotheses of [F4] are DC and the ultrafilter lemma with AC, which hold by [F2] under the standing AC. Since X is second countable, [F5] makes it Polish, and then standard Borel by [F5]. This proves the first assertion.

3.1step 2.1F6

Now let G be a second-countable LCH group and H≤G closed. By [F6] the quotient G/H is locally compact Hausdorff and p is open, so the images p(B) of the members of a countable base B of G form a countable family of open sets; it is a base of G/H because for x∈G/H and an open U∋x the preimage p−1(U) is open and contains a basic B through some point of the fibre, whence x∈p(B)⊆U. Thus G/H is second-countable LCH, and [step 2.1] applied to G/H shows that G/H is Polish and its Borel structure is standard Borel.

4.1step 3.1F7

The left action a:G×G/H→G/H, a(g,xH)=gxH, is continuous: the composite (g,x)↦p(gx) is continuous on G×G by [F7], it factors through the surjective open map id⁡×p:G×G→G×G/H (because xH=x′H implies gxH=gx′H), and a continuous open surjection is a quotient map, so a is continuous; in particular a is Borel for the product of the Borel structures.

5.1step 2.1step 3.1step 4.1∎

Combining the two parts: every second-countable LCH space is Polish and standard Borel, and for a second-countable LCH group G with closed subgroup H the homogeneous space G/H is Polish with standard Borel structure and the left action is continuous and hence Borel. The empty space is Polish and standard Borel by the same definitions, consistently with the vacuous case of the first assertion.

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