Measurable group theory, descriptive set theory and model theory of homogeneous structures

可测群论、描述集合论和齐次结构模型论

• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-05445
• 负责人: Sabok, Marcin
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=716339
• 关键词: Measurable; group; theory; descriptive; set

This is a proposal primarily in mathematical logic, concerning some of its most active areas, such as descriptive set theory and model theory of homogeneous structures. The proposal continuous a research program of the PI. This program concentrates on several themes that have been central in the discipline in the recent years, such as Borel combinatorics, measurable group theory, the Hrushovski property with its connections to profinite group theory and the automatic continuity phenomenon. Part I. Flows in amenable groups. This part will focus on discovering structural phenomena in actions of amenable group on measure spaces. A well-known conjecture of Gardner from the 1990's states that if G is an amenable group acting on a probability measure space in a measure preserving way, then whenever two measurable subsets of the space are G-equidecomposable, then they are G-equidecomposable using measurable pieces. This is a far-reaching generalization of recent breakthrough results. Part II. Structure of hyperfinite equivalence relations. Hyperfinite equivalence relations appear on the interface of ergodic theory and descriptive set theory as equivalence relations induced by Borel actions of the group Z of the integers. A notorious open problem in this discipline asks whether an equivalence relation which is almost everywhere hyperfinite with respect to every probability measure must be hyperfinite. Part III. Structure of treeable equivalence relations. Structure of p.m.p (probability measure preserving) actions of finitely generated groups is one of the central themes in measured group theory. Ergodic dimension and strong ergodic dimension are invariants of a group defined in terms of the structure of its probability measure preserving actions. Treeable (strongly treeable) groups are those of ergodic (strong ergodic) dimension equal to 1. One of the notorious open questions asks if every treeable group is strongly treeable. Part IV. Extension properties for automorphisms and profinite topology. In the 1990's Hrushovski proved a fundamental theorem about extensions of partial automorphisms of finite graphs: for every finite graph G there exists a finite graph G' containing G as an induced subgraph such that all partial automorphisms of G extend to automorphisms of G'. Since then it has been a focus of extended study to understand which Fraisse classes of finite structures share this property. One of the most interesting problems in this area is a long-standing question of Herwig and Lascar asking whether the class of finite tournaments has this property. Part V. The automatic continuity phenomenon. Automatic continuity is the property of a topological group which says that any homomorphism from that group into a separable group is continuous. It has been recently proved for many infinite-dimensional groups via connections to Fraisee theory. This project aims at developing techniques for proving the automatic continuity for homeomorphism groups.

这是一个主要在数理逻辑中提出的建议，涉及一些最活跃的领域，如描述性集合论和齐次结构的模型论。该提案延续了PI的一项研究计划。该计划集中于近年来在该学科中处于中心地位的几个主题，如Borel组合学，可测量群论，赫鲁晓夫斯基性质及其与无限群论的联系以及自动连续性现象。