Wildness in the product groups

G. Hjorth

Fundamenta Mathematicae (2000)

  • Volume: 164, Issue: 1, page 1-33
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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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.

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Hjorth, G.. "Wildness in the product groups." Fundamenta Mathematicae 164.1 (2000): 1-33. <http://eudml.org/doc/212445>.

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