Torsion-Free Abelian Groups are Borel Complete
Speaker:
Gianluca Paolini, University of Toronto
Date and Time:
Friday, July 23, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Abstract:
We prove that the Borel space of torsion-free Abelian groups with domain $\omega$ is Borel complete, i.e., the isomorphism relation on this Borel space is as complicated as possible, as an isomorphism relation. This solves a long-standing open problem in descriptive set theory, which dates back to the seminal paper on Borel reducibility of Friedman and Stanley from 1989.