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orbits in locally compact group
As everyone knows if $x\in S^1$, then the set $\{ x^n \}$ is either finite or dense. Under which condition is true for any other locally compact group, i.e if $G$ is a locally compact group, and $x\in ...
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Countable companions for Polish locally compact groups and their orbit equivalence relations
In "Countable sections for locally compact group actions" (Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys., 1992), Kechris proved that if $G$ is a Polish locally compact group acting in a Borel way on a ...
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Seeking to understand meaning of "von Neumann spectrum" in a paper of Bader–Furman–Shaker
In attempting to understand the paper "Superrigidity, Weyl groups, and actions on the circle" of Uri Bader, Alex Furman and Ali Shaker (linked at Furman's page)
I find that towards the end of the ...
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Banach density of a sequence of spheres in a virtually nilpotent group
Let $G$ be a finitely-generated group of polynomial growth equipped with the word metric (with respect to a fixed symmetric generating set).
Let
\begin{equation*}
A = \left\{ g \in G: |g| = mn, n \...
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Do syndetic sets on amenable semigroups have positive upper density?
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a discrete amenable semigroup, and $\left\{ F_{n}\right\} $
a Folner sequence.
For $S\subset \mathbb{G}$ define the upper density as $D^{\ast
}(S)=\limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty }\...