# Haar null sets in non-locally compact groups

Type:
PhD Student Seminar
Audience:
CEU Community + Invited Guests
Building:
Zrinyi u. 14
Room:
310/A
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 2:00pm
Date:
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Abstract: It may well be the most important result proved by a
Hungarian mathematician that every locally compact group admits a
natural invariant measure, the so called Haar measure. However, it is
also known that if a Polish group is not locally compact (think of
e.g. $C[0,1]$ or the permutation group $S_\infty$) then there is no
Haar measure on it. However, as Christensen showed, the notion of a
Haar \emph{nullset} has a very well-behaved generalisation, hence it
makes sense to talk about almost every continuous function or almost
every permutation. After surveying this notion we will discuss
innocent-looking problems like "Is every nullset contained in a
$G_\delta$ nullset?", then we will describe various properties of
almost every continuous function.

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