Minimal hyperspace actions of homeomorphism groups of h-homogeneous spaces

Eli Glasner*, Yonatan Gutman

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Abstract

Suppose that X is an h-homogeneous zero-dimensional compact Hausdorff space, i. e., X is a Stone dual of a homogeneous Boolean algebra. Using the dual Ramsey theorem and a detailed combinatorial analysis of what we call stable collections of subsets of a finite set, we obtain a complete list of the minimal sub-systems of the compact dynamical system (Exp(Exp(X)), Homeo(X)), where Exp(X) denotes the hyperspace comprising the closed subsets of X equipped with the Vietoris topology. The importance of this dynamical system stems from Uspenskij's characterization of the universal ambit of G = Homeo(X). The results apply to the Cantor set, the generalized Cantor sets X = {0,1}κ for noncountable cardinals κ, and to several other spaces. A particular interesting case is X = ω* = βω \ ω, where βω denotes the Stone- Čech compactification of the natural numbers. This space, called the corona or the remainder of ω, has been extensively studied in the fields of set theory and topology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)305-332
Number of pages28
JournalJournal d'Analyse Mathematique
Volume119
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2013

Funding

FundersFunder number
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

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