On actions of abelian Cantor groups

Abstract

By a Cantor group we mean a topological group homeomorphic to the Cantor set. The author earlier proved that every compact metric space of rational cohomological dimension n can be obtained as the orbit space of a Cantor group action on a metric compact space of covering dimension n. In this paper, we consider actions of abelian Cantor groups and, in particular, we show that in the result mentioned above the Cantor group can be assumed to be abelian for n>1.