A convex structure on sofic embeddings

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2012.193MaRDI QIDQ2925267zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Liviu Păunescu

Publication date 21 October 2014

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2195

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55)

Abstract: Nathanial Brown introduced a convex-like structure on the set of unitary equivalence classes of unital *-homomorphisms of a separable type II_1 factor into R^omega (ultrapower of the hyperfinite factor). The goal of this paper is to introduce such a structure on the set of sofic representations of groups. We prove that if the commutant of a representation acts ergodicaly on the Loeb measure space then that representation is an extreme point.

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