Compactifications of $\mathbb{N}$ and Polishable subgroups of $S_{\infty}$
Tom 189 / 2006
Fundamenta Mathematicae 189 (2006), 269-284
MSC: Primary 54H05, 54H15; Secondary 54F50.
DOI: 10.4064/fm189-3-4
Streszczenie
We study homeomorphism groups of metrizable compactifications of $\mathbb{N}$. All of those groups can be represented as almost zero-dimensional Polishable subgroups of the group $S_\infty$. As a corollary, we show that all Polish groups are continuous homomorphic images of almost zero-dimensional Polishable subgroups of $S_\infty$. We prove a sufficient condition for these groups to be one-dimensional and also study their descriptive complexity. In the last section we associate with every Polishable ideal on $\mathbb{N}$ a certain Polishable subgroup of $S_\infty$ which shares its topological dimension and descriptive complexity.