IUMJ

Title: Global and local boundedness of Polish groups

Authors: Christian Rosendal

Issue: Volume 62 (2013), Issue 5, 1621-1678

Abstract:

We present a comprehensive theory of boundedness properties for Polish groups developed with a main focus on \emph{Roelcke precompactness} (precompactness of the lower uniformity) and \emph{Property (OB)} (boundedness of all isometric actions on separable metric spaces). In particular, these properties are characterised by the orbit structure of isometric or continuous affine representations on separable Banach spaces. We further study local versions of boundedness properties and the microscopic structure of Polish groups, and show how the latter relates to the local dynamics of isometric and affine actions.