A Borel parametrization of Polish groups
A Borel parametrization of Polish groups
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波兰群的 Borel 参数化
DOI:
10.2977/prims/1195178509
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Colin E. Sutherland
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作者:
Colin E. Sutherland
This paper constructs a standard Borel space, PG, and a map p^PG—>G(p} such that each G(p) is a Polish group, and such that every Polish group is isomorphic to at least one of the groups G(p) ; PG thus serves as a parameter space for all Polish groups. We formulate the notion of a Borel map from a standard B Space to Polish groups, and that of a Borel functor from a standard Borel groupoid to Polish groups; both are defined in terms of the existence of Borel factorizations through PG. We apply these ideas to establish a general "Cohomology Lemma," asserting that cocycles, with values in Borel family of Polish groups, may be cobounded into a given family of dense, normal, Borel subgroups, whenever the underlying groupoid is a hyperfinite equivalence relation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a parametrizatio n, by a standard Borel space PG, for the space of Polish topological groups, i. e. those second countable topological groups whose underlying topology may be defined by a complete metric, and to present applications of this to the notion of "Borel functor" from a standard Borel groupoid to Polish groups. The need for such concepts became apparent during the course of joint work with M. Takesaki on the classification of the possible actions (up to cocycle conjugacy) of a discrete amenable group on a hyperfinite, semifinite injective von Neumann algebra [12], and the paper can be viewed as preparatory to this work. However, the point of view adopted also reveals a definition of A. Connes, [4], of the notion of Borel functor from a standard Borel groupoid to standard measure spaces, as being very natural. A common situation in which the problems considered here arise is the following: if G is a Polish group and X a Polish G-space under