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A Metamathematical Condition Equivalent to the Existence of a Complete Left Invariant Metric for a Polish Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Alex Thompson
Alex Thompson*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA, E-mail: [email protected], URL: www.math.ucla.edu/~act2
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Abstract

Strengthening a theorem of Hjorth this paper gives a new characterization of which Polish groups admit compatible complete left invariant metrics. As a corollary it is proved that any Polish group without a complete left invariant metric has a continuous action on a Polish space whose associated orbit equivalence relation is not essentially countable.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 1108 - 1124
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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