Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4665151 Advances in Mathematics 2016 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

We determine the exact complexity of classifying compact metric spaces up to homeomorphism. More precisely, the homeomorphism relation on compact metric spaces is Borel bi-reducible with the complete orbit equivalence relation of Polish group actions. Consequently, the same holds for the isomorphism relation between separable commutative C*-algebras and the isometry relation between C(K)-spaces.

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