About von Neumann's problem for locally compact groups

DOI10.4171/JNCG/317MaRDI QIDQ1731737zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Friedrich Martin Schneider

Publication date 14 March 2019

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07955

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilitycoarse geometrylocally compact groupsparadoxicalitypiecewise translations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Geometric group theory (20F65) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: We note a generalization of Whyte's geometric solution to the von Neumann problem for locally compact groups in terms of Borel and clopen piecewise translations. This strengthens a result of Paterson on the existence of Borel paradoxical decompositions for non-amenable locally compact groups. Along the way, we study the connection between some geometric properties of coarse spaces and certain algebraic characteristics of their wobbling groups.

Review text

The aim of this paper is to extend Whyte's relaxed version of the von Neumann conjecture to the realm of locally compact groups. The author states a generalization of Whyte's geometric solution to the von Neumann problem for locally compact groups in terms of Borel and clopen piecewise translations. This strengthens a result by Paterson on the existence of Borel paradoxical decompositions for nonamenable locally compact groups. Along the way, the author studies the connection between some geometric properties of coarse spaces and certain algebraic characteristics of their wobbling groups.

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