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Fraïssé structures and a conjecture of Furstenberg

Dana Bartošová, Andy Zucker (2019)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We study problems concerning the Samuel compactification of the automorphism group of a countable first-order structure. A key motivating question is a problem of Furstenberg and a counter-conjecture by Pestov regarding the difference between S ( G ) , the Samuel compactification, and E ( M ( G ) ) , the enveloping semigroup of the universal minimal flow. We resolve Furstenberg’s problem for several automorphism groups and give a detailed study in the case of G = S , leading us to define and investigate several new types...

Free actions of free groups on countable structures and property (T)

David M. Evans, Todor Tsankov (2016)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We show that if G is a non-archimedean, Roelcke precompact Polish group, then G has Kazhdan's property (T). Moreover, if G has a smallest open subgroup of finite index, then G has a finite Kazhdan set. Examples of such G include automorphism groups of countable ω-categorical structures, that is, the closed, oligomorphic permutation groups on a countable set. The proof uses work of the second author on the unitary representations of such groups, together with a separation result for infinite permutation...

Free non-archimedean topological groups

Michael Megrelishvili, Menachem Shlossberg (2013)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We study free topological groups defined over uniform spaces in some subclasses of the class 𝐍𝐀 of non-archimedean groups. Our descriptions of the corresponding topologies show that for metrizable uniformities the corresponding free balanced, free abelian and free Boolean 𝐍𝐀 groups are also metrizable. Graev type ultra-metrics determine the corresponding free topologies. Such results are in a striking contrast with free balanced and free abelian topological groups cases (in standard varieties). Another...

Frequency functions on the Heisenberg group, the uncertainty principle and unique continuation

Nicola Garofalo, Ermanno Lanconelli (1990)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

A recent result of Bahouri shows that continuation from an open set fails in general for solutions of u = V u where V C and = j = 1 N - 1 X j 2 is a (nonelliptic) operator in R N satisfying Hörmander’s condition for hypoellipticity. In this paper we study the model case when is the subelliptic Laplacian on the Heisenberg group and V is a zero order term which is allowed to be unbounded. We provide a sufficient condition, involving a first order differential inequality, for nontrivial solutions of u = V u to have a finite order...

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