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    On Roeckle-precompact Polish group which cannot act transitively on a complete metric space

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    We study when a continuous isometric action of a Polish group on a complete metric space is, or can be, transitive. Our main results consist of showing that certain Polish groups, namely Aut∗(μ)\mathrm{Aut}^*(\mu) and Homeo+[0,1]\mathrm{Homeo}^+[0,1], such an action can never be transitive (unless the space acted upon is a singleton). We also point out "circumstantial evidence" that this pathology could be related to that of Polish groups which are not closed permutation groups and yet have discrete uniform distance, and give a general characterisation of continuous isometric action of a Roeckle-precompact Polish group on a complete metric space is transitive. It follows that the morphism from a Roeckle-precompact Polish group to its Bohr compactification is surjective
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