The idempotent measure conjecture for definable groups

Let G=G(C)G=G(\mathfrak{C}) be a definable group, and let μMGdef(C,M)\mu\in\mathfrak{M}^{\operatorname{def}}_G(\mathfrak{C},M) be fim over MM. Its right stabilizer, denoted Stab(μ)\operatorname{Stab}(\mu), is type-definable over MM. The measure μ\mu is idempotent measure conjecture. The following conditions are conjectured to be equivalent:

  1. μ\mu is idempotent with respect to definable convolution.
  2. μ\mu is the unique right GG-invariant, equivalently unique left GG-invariant, Keisler measure concentrated on Stab(μ)\operatorname{Stab}(\mu).

In particular, the conjecture predicts a correspondence between idempotent fim measures in MGinv(C,M)\mathfrak{M}^{\operatorname{inv}}_G(\mathfrak{C},M) and MM-type-definable fim subgroups of G(C)G(\mathfrak{C}). It translates the characterization of convolution-idempotent regular measures on locally compact groups as Haar measures on compact subgroups into the model-theoretic setting. It is known for definable groups in stable theories, abelian definable groups, certain NIP groups when the measure is G00G^{00}-invariant, and Dirac measures in rosy theories; the general case remains open.

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Primary source

Daniel Max Hoffmann and Tomasz Rzepecki, “On idempotent measure conjecture and decomposition of invariant measures”, arXiv:2511.22945 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.23503.

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