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The structure of random automorphisms of the rational numbers

Márton Elekes, Kende Kalina, Viktor Kiss, Zoltán Vidnyánszky, Udayan B. Darji,
Published in Institute of Mathematics. Polish Academy of Sciences
2020
Volume: 250
   
Issue: 1
Pages: 1 - 20
Abstract

In order to understand the structure of the "typical" element of an automorphism group, one has to study how large the conjugacy classes of the group are. For the case when typical is meant in the sense of Baire category, Truss proved that there is a co-meagre conjugacy class in Aut(Q,<), the automorphism group of the rational numbers. Following Dougherty and Mycielski we investigate the measure-theoretic dual of this problem, using Christensen's notion of Haar null sets. We give a complete description of the size of the conjugacy classes of the group Aut((Q,<) with respect to this notion. In particular, we show that there exist continuum many non-Haar-null conjugacy classes, illustrating that the random behaviour is quite different from the typical one in the sense of Baire category. © Instytut Matematyczny PAN, 2020.

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JournalFundamenta Mathematicae
PublisherInstitute of Mathematics. Polish Academy of Sciences
Open AccessYes