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Main Authors: Koh, Heer Tern, Melnikov, Alexander, Ng, Keng Meng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04617
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author Koh, Heer Tern
Melnikov, Alexander
Ng, Keng Meng
author_facet Koh, Heer Tern
Melnikov, Alexander
Ng, Keng Meng
contents We investigate what it means for a (Hausdorff, second-countable) topological group to be computable. We compare several potential definitions in the literature. We relate these notions with the well-established definitions of effective presentability for discrete and profinite groups, and compare these results with similar results in computable topology. Most of these definitions can be separated by counter-examples. Remarkably, we prove that two such definitions are equivalent for locally compact Polish and abelian Polish groups. More specifically, we prove that in these broad classes of groups, every computable topological group admits a right-c.e.~(upper semi-computable) presentation with a left-invariant metric, and a computable dense sequence of points. In the locally compact case, we also show that if the group is additionally effectively locally compact, then we can produce an effectively proper left-invariant metric.
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spellingShingle Computable topological groups
Koh, Heer Tern
Melnikov, Alexander
Ng, Keng Meng
Logic
03D78 (Primary)
We investigate what it means for a (Hausdorff, second-countable) topological group to be computable. We compare several potential definitions in the literature. We relate these notions with the well-established definitions of effective presentability for discrete and profinite groups, and compare these results with similar results in computable topology. Most of these definitions can be separated by counter-examples. Remarkably, we prove that two such definitions are equivalent for locally compact Polish and abelian Polish groups. More specifically, we prove that in these broad classes of groups, every computable topological group admits a right-c.e.~(upper semi-computable) presentation with a left-invariant metric, and a computable dense sequence of points. In the locally compact case, we also show that if the group is additionally effectively locally compact, then we can produce an effectively proper left-invariant metric.
title Computable topological groups
topic Logic
03D78 (Primary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04617