Vaught’s conjecture and the Glimm-Effros property for Polish transformation groups

Hjorth, Greg; Solecki, Slawomir

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02141-8

Vaught’s conjecture and the Glimm-Effros property for Polish transformation groups
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by Greg Hjorth and Slawomir Solecki

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), 2623-2641

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02141-8

Published electronically: March 10, 1999

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Abstract:

We extend the original Glimm-Effros theorem for locally compact groups to a class of Polish groups including the nilpotent ones and those with an invariant metric. For this class we thereby obtain the topological Vaught conjecture.

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