Fixed points for bounded orbits in Hilbert spaces

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Authors Maxime Gheysens, Nicolas Monod

Publication date 10 May 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00423, http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/AnnalesENS/4_50/html/ens_ann-sc_50_131-156.php

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacefree grouplocally compact groupamenabilityaffine action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: Consider the following property of a topological group G: every continuous affine G-action on a Hilbert space with a bounded orbit has a fixed point. We prove that this property characterizes amenability for locally compact sigma-compact groups (e.g. countable groups). Along the way, we introduce a "moderate" variant of the classical induction of representations and we generalize the Gaboriau--Lyons theorem to prove that any non-amenable locally compact group admits a probabilistic variant of discrete free subgroups. This leads to the "measure-theoretic solution" to the von Neumann problem for locally compact groups. We illustrate the latter result by giving a partial answer to the Dixmier problem for locally compact groups.

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