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Dynamics Lunch: Omer Ben-Neria "Dichotomies for Borel equivalence relations" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Dynamics Lunch: Omer Ben-Neria "Dichotomies for Borel equivalence relations"

Date: 
Tue, 18/12/201812:00-13:00
Abstract:
We would like present several results in descriptive set theory involving definable equivalence relations on Polish spaces.
Given an equivalence relation E on a polish space X, we would like to study the classification problem of determining whether two objects x,y in X are E-related.
A natural approach to this problem is to search for complete (and simple) invariants that can be assigned to the members of X and determine their E-classes. More generally, we can try to reduce the classification problem of E to a simpler one, by constructing a Borel map f : X --> X' which reduces the equivalence relation E on X to a simpler equivalence
relation E' on X'. The existence of such a reduction is denoted by E <=_B E' (E is Borel reducible to E').
We will present several results concerning the order <=_B and their applications to classification problems.