Universal minimal flows of automorphism groups
Bulletin de l'Académie serbe des sciences. Classe des sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Tome 28 (2003) no. 1
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We investigate some connections between the Fra\'{\i}ssé
theory of amalgamation classes and ultrahomogeneous structures,
Ramsey theory, and topological dynamics of automorphism groups of
countable structures. We show, in particular, that results from
the structural Ramsey theory can be quite useful in recognizing
the universal minimal flows of this kind of groups. As result we
compute universal minimal flows of several well known topological
groups such as, for example, the automorphism group of the random
graph, the automorphism group of the random triangle-free graph,
the automorphism group of the $\infty$-dimensional vector space
over a finite field, the automorphism group of the countable
atomless Boolean algebra,etc. So we have here a reversal in the
traditional relationship between topological dynamics and Ramsey
theory, the Ramsey-theoretic results are used in proving theorems
of topological dynamics rather than vice versa.