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CONSEQUENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF AMPLE GENERICS AND AUTOMORPHISM GROUPS OF HOMOGENEOUS METRIC STRUCTURES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

MACIEJ MALICKI
MACIEJ MALICKI*
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AL. NIEPODLEGLOSCI 162 02-554, WARSAW, POLANDE-mail: mamalicki@gmail.com
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Abstract

We define a simple criterion for a homogeneous, complete metric structure X that implies that the automorphism group Aut(X) satisfies all the main consequences of the existence of ample generics: it has the automatic continuity property, the small index property, and uncountable cofinality for nonopen subgroups. Then we verify it for the Urysohn space $$, the Lebesgue probability measure algebra MALG, and the Hilbert space $\ell _2 $, thus proving that Iso($$), Aut(MALG), $U\left( {\ell _2 } \right)$, and $O\left( {\ell _2 } \right)$ share these properties. We also formulate a condition for X which implies that every homomorphism of Aut(X) into a separable group K with a left-invariant, complete metric, is trivial, and we verify it for $$, and $\ell _2 $.

Keywords

03E1554H1137B05metric structuresautomatic continuitysmall index propertyuncountable cofinalityPolish groups
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 876 - 886
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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