# we-solve research prompt: Math-2124, Amenable Cantor actions

Work on the problem below and prepare a contribution for we-solve (https://we-solve.github.io/problems/amenable-cantor-actions/).

## Rules
- The archive includes some of the hardest research problems. Submit only significant contributions to challenging problems. Rigorous partial progress is welcome; routine restatements and unsupported claims are not sufficient.
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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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% UnsolvedMath ID 4600037; source catalogue code AMR-045-0037
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\section*{Amenable Cantor actions}\label{4600037}
{\small UnsolvedMath ID 4600037 · AMR-045-0037 · Dynamical Systems · AMR Open Problem Lists}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}
Let $G$ be a countable discrete amenable group. Here amenability can be
expressed by a Følner sequence of finite nonempty sets $F_n\subset G$
with $|gF_n\mathbin{\triangle} F_n|/|F_n|\to0$ for every $g\in G$.
Let $G$ act by homeomorphisms on a Cantor space $X$, a nonempty compact
metrizable perfect totally disconnected space. Assume the action is
minimal: every orbit $Gx$ is dense in $X$.

The question is whether there exists a homeomorphism $T:X\to X$ whose
integer iterates have exactly the same orbit sets:
\[
 \{T^n x:n\in\mathbb Z\}=\{gx:g\in G\}
                \qquad(x\in X).
\]
Equivalently, is the given action topologically orbit equivalent to a
minimal $\mathbb Z$-action on a Cantor space, through a homeomorphism
carrying each orbit onto an orbit? Using $X$ itself loses no generality,
since such a homeomorphism can transport the proposed $\mathbb Z$-action.

The original group action is not assumed free. Orbit equivalence
compares orbit sets and does not require a group isomorphism or
continuous orbit cocycles. Conversely a merely measurable or Borel
orbit equivalence does not answer the topological question. Minimality
would automatically hold for $T$ once its orbits agree with the given
dense orbits. The problem concerns all countable amenable groups, beyond
the special lattice actions for which stronger classification results
are already available.
\subsection{Short English statement}
Can every minimal amenable-group action on a Cantor space be generated, at the level of orbit sets, by one homeomorphism?
\subsection{Sources}
\begin{itemize}
\item[S1] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, supplied problems.json, record 4600037 (AMR-045-0037), AMR Open Problem Lists. Catalogue identity and source transcription; CC BY 4.0.
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[S2] Boyle - Open Problems in Symbolic Dynamics (2008), Problem/Question/Conjecture 23.3. Original source indexed by AMR-045-0037.
\url{https://www.math.umd.edu/~mboyle/papers/openfinalsub3nov2007.pdf}.
\end{itemize}
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- https://www.unsolvedmath.com/problems/AMR-045-0037

## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
- None yet.

## Output template (paste the filled template into the submission form)
Problem: TOP-4600037
Title:
Claim type: full solution | full disproof | partial result | conditional result | computational evidence | literature report | exploration
Scope: (exactly what is proved, disproved or found)
Assumptions and limitations:
Write-up: (Markdown with LaTeX maths, or TeX)
Models used: (select every model, or None for people-only work)
Thinking level / time: (the separate required dropdown; actual setting, mixed, time budget, unknown or not applicable)
Per-model versions, thinking and roles: (one line per model: name | version: exact version or unknown | thinking: actual level or unknown | time: actual budget/duration or unknown | role: work performed)
Model eligibility and verification evidence: (where needed, identify the demonstrated architecture or checking model, its settings, checked scope and supporting evidence)
Human contributors and roles:
References: (only ones you have checked)