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Title
Wildness in the product groups
Authors 1
Affiliations
- 6363 MSB, Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA90095-1555, U.S.A.
Abstract
Non-abelian Polish groups arising as countable products of countable groups can be tame in arbitrarily complicated ways. This contrasts with some results of Solecki who revealed a very different picture in the abelian case.
Keywords
group actions, Polish groups, group trees, product groups, permutation groups, Borel equivalence relations
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Pages:
1-33
Main language of publication
English
Received
1998-02-02
Accepted
1999-11-29
Published
2000
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