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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 is a second-countable locally compact Hausdorff topological group and is a closed subgroup, then the homogeneous space with its quotient topology is Polish and the quotient Borel structure together with the left action is a standard Borel -space with Borel action.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, a second-countable LCH space ; later a second-countable LCH group and a closed subgroup .
For a locally compact Hausdorff space : every point and open neighbourhood admit an open with and compact; the open sets with compact closure form a base of ; and is regular (In a locally compact Hausdorff space every open set containing a point contains an open set containing it whose closure is compact and still inside; such a space is regular, Countably compact, Lindel"of, sequentially compact, limit point compact and -compact spaces, and relatively compact subsets, Locally compact topological space: every point has a compact neighbourhood; and what this says in a metric space).
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.
Every regular second-countable space is metrizable (Under choice, every regular second-countable space is metrizable); in particular so is (Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology, Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison).
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).
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).
If is closed in an LCH group , then with the quotient topology is locally compact Hausdorff and the quotient map is open; every compact subset of lies in for a compact (Compact lifts and averaging onto C_c(G/H), Left and right cosets and 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).
Multiplication 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 and of a subgroup).
Proof
Given: AC; a second-countable LCH space , later a second-countable LCH group with closed subgroup .
Let be a countable base of and let be the members of whose closure is compact. This is a base: given and an open , [F1] yields an open with and compact, and then some satisfies , so is compact and . Hence every point of lies in a member of , whose closure is compact, and the closures of the countably many members of cover ; thus is a countable union of compact sets.
is regular by [F1] and because it is Hausdorff, so with its countable base it is metrizable by [F3]; fix a compatible metric .
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 is second countable, [F5] makes it Polish, and then standard Borel by [F5]. This proves the first assertion.
Now let be a second-countable LCH group and closed. By [F6] the quotient is locally compact Hausdorff and is open, so the images of the members of a countable base of form a countable family of open sets; it is a base of because for and an open the preimage is open and contains a basic through some point of the fibre, whence . Thus is second-countable LCH, and [step 2.1] applied to shows that is Polish and its Borel structure is standard Borel.
The left action , , is continuous: the composite is continuous on by [F7], it factors through the surjective open map (because implies ), and a continuous open surjection is a quotient map, so is continuous; in particular is Borel for the product of the Borel structures.
Combining the two parts: every second-countable LCH space is Polish and standard Borel, and for a second-countable LCH group with closed subgroup the homogeneous space 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.
Depends on
- Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology
- Locally compact topological space: every point has a compact neighbourhood; and what this says in a metric space
- Topology on a set, open and closed sets, clopen sets, the closed-set axiomatisation, and the coarser/finer comparison
- Polish spaces are separable completely metrizable spaces
- Standard Borel spaces
- Countably compact, Lindel\"of, sequentially compact, limit point compact and $\sigma$-compact spaces, and relatively compact subsets
- In a locally compact Hausdorff space every open set containing a point contains an open set containing it whose closure is compact and still inside; such a space is regular
- Under choice, every regular $T_1$ second-countable space is metrizable
- Every locally compact Hausdorff space is Čech-complete
- Under the ultrafilter lemma and the Axiom of Choice, a metrizable space is Čech-complete exactly when it is completely metrizable
- For completely metrizable spaces, the separable and second-countable definitions of Polish space agree under countable choice
- 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
- The Axiom of Choice
- Topological group: multiplication and inversion are continuous
- AC implies DC implies countable choice
- Left group actions, transitive actions, and faithful actions
Used by
- Mackey little-group reduction for an abelian normal subgroup Corollary
- Transitive systems of imprimitivity and their normalized measure class Definition
- A system of imprimitivity integrates to a nondegenerate representation of the transformation algebra Lemma
- A transitive Borel G-space with a quasi-invariant measure class is ergodic Lemma
- An induced representation carries a canonical system of imprimitivity on G/H Lemma
- Borel cross-sections for closed subgroups of second-countable locally compact Hausdorff groups Lemma
- Haar regularization of transitive unitary cocycles Lemma
- Spectral measure of a unitary representation of an abelian group, covariance, and ergodicity Lemma
- Spectral multiplicity model of a transitive system of imprimitivity Lemma
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Sources
- G. B. Folland, A Course in Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Chapter 2 (locally compact groups and homogeneous spaces, Polish structure) (standard reference, not scraped)
- G. Misra, E. K. Narayanan and C. Varughese, Mackey Imprimitivity and commuting tuples of homogeneous normal operators, arXiv:2402.15737 (standard reference, not scraped)