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Connected components of definable groups and o-minimality I
We give examples of groups G such that G^00 is different from G^000. We also
prove that for groups G definable in an o-minimal structure, G has a "bounded
orbit" iff G is definably amenable. These results answer questions of
Gismatullin, Newelski, Petrykovski. The examples also give new non G-compact
first order theories.Comment: 26 pages. This paper corrects the paper "Groups definable in
o-minimal structures: structure theorem, G^000, definable amenability, and
bounded orbits" by the first author which was posted in December
(1012.4540v1) and later withdraw
On Roeckle-precompact Polish group which cannot act transitively on a complete metric space
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 and
, 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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