Toronto Set Theory

Event Information About the conjecture that oligomorphic groups have metrizable universal minimal flows
13:30 on Friday March 27, 2015
15:00 on Friday March 27, 2015
FI210, Fields Institute, 222 College St.
Dana Bartosova

University of Sao Paulo

We will discuss a conjecture of Lionel Nguyen van Th\'e as in the title. It was shown by Andy Zucker to be equivalent to whether every class of finitary approximations of a countable ultrahomogeneous structure with oligomorphic automorphism group has a finite Ramsey degree. We look at the problem from the Boolean algebra point of view. An interesting example in this context is the automorphism group of a topological structure whose natural quotient is the pseudo-arc, which is a work in progress with Aleksandra Kwiatkowksa (UCLA).