On a dimension for a class of homeomorphism groups
On a dimension for a class of homeomorphism groups
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关于一类同胚群的维数
DOI:
10.1007/bf01420115
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Wolfgang Krieger
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作者:
Wolfgang Krieger
The dimension has proved to be a highly useful tool in the classification theory of von Neumann algebras and also in the classification theory of automorphism groups of measure spaces. As for C*-algebras, Elliott has recently presented a theory that contains a classification of the AF-algebras by means of the ranges of their dimensions 1, 2]. Closely adhering to Elliott's ideas we introduce here a dimension for a class of countable locally finite homeomorphism groups of a zero dimensional compactum. The groups we consider we call ample groups. We require of such an ample group that every one of its elements has an open fixed point set, and that every homeomorphism that can be patched together from elements of the group is already in the group. This notion of an ample group is reminiscent of the notion of a full group in ergodic theory as initiated by Dye I-1]. The range of the dimension of an ample group is the segment of an ordered abelian group, its dimension group. Call countable homeomorphism groups f# and f~, acting on a zero-dimensional compactum X and f~ acting on a zero-dimensional compactum)~, spatially isomorphic if there is a homeomorphism h of X onto)~ such that f~= hfgh-1. We shall see that ample groups are spatially isomorphic if and only if the ranges of their dimensions are isomorphic (Sect. 3). We shall note that one has the analog theory also for of second countable a-compact zerodimensional spaces.