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Dynamical decompositions of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}X\setminus X$

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

YEVHEN ZELENYUK
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa email yevhen.zelenyuk@wits.ac.za, yuliya.zelenyuk@wits.ac.za
YULIYA ZELENYUK
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa email yevhen.zelenyuk@wits.ac.za, yuliya.zelenyuk@wits.ac.za

Abstract

Let $X$ be a locally compact, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}$-compact, non-compact Hausdorff space and let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}X$ be the Stone-Čech compactification of $X$. Let $G$ be a countably infinite discrete group continuously acting on $X$, and suppose that, for every $g\in G$, $\text{Fix}(g)=\{x\in X:gx=x\}$ is compact. The action of $G$ on $X$ induces the action on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}X$, and so on $X^{\ast }=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}X\setminus X$. Let ${\mathcal{D}}$ denote the finest decomposition of $X^{\ast }$ into closed invariant subsets such that the corresponding quotient space of $X^{\ast }$ is Hausdorff. Such a decomposition can be defined for any action of $G$ on a compact Hausdorff space. Applying it to every member of ${\mathcal{D}}$ gives us a decomposition ${\mathcal{D}}^{2}$ of $X^{\ast }$, then ${\mathcal{D}}^{3}$, and so on. We show that (1) ${\mathcal{D}}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{1}}$ is the coarsest decomposition of $X^{\ast }$ into closed invariant topologically transitive subsets, (2) there is a dense subset of points $p\in X^{\ast }$ such that $\overline{Gp}\in {\mathcal{D}}^{2}\setminus {\mathcal{D}}$, in particular, ${\mathcal{D}}$ is non-trivial and ${\mathcal{D}}^{2}$ is finer than ${\mathcal{D}}$, and (3) for every ordinal $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}<\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{1}$, there is $p\in X^{\ast }$ such that $\overline{Gp}\in {\mathcal{D}}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}+2}\setminus {\mathcal{D}}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}+1}$, so all the decompositions ${\mathcal{D}}^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}$, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\leq \unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{1}$, are distinct.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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