Weak equivalence and the structures of cocycles of an ergodic automorphism (Q1190723)

Summary: Let \((X,\mu)\) be a Lebesgue space, \(\Gamma\) an approximately finite ergodic group of the automorphisms, \(\alpha\) a cocycle on \(X\times\Gamma\) with values in an arbitrary Abelian locally compact separable group \(G\), and \(\rho\) the Radon-Nikodým cocycle on \(X\times\Gamma\). The concept of weak equivalence of the pairs \((\Gamma,\alpha)\) is introduced and studied, which generalizes the concept of trajectory equivalence of automorphism groups. It is proved that the pairs \((\Gamma_ 1,\alpha^ 1_ 0)\) and \((\Gamma_ 2,\alpha^ 2_ 0)\) \((\alpha^ i_ 0=(\alpha,\rho))\) are (stably) weakly equivalent iff the corresponding Mackey pairs \(W_ 1(G_ 0)\) and \(W_ 2(G_ 0)\) of the group \(G_ 0=G\times\mathbb{R}\) are isomorphic. It is proved that any ergodic action of \(G\times\mathbb{R}\) (or \(G\)) is isomorphic to the Mackey action associated wit a certain pair \((\Gamma,\alpha_ 0)\). The structure of cocycles of approximately finite equivalence relations is studied. The relationship between the type of the group \(\Gamma\) and that of the corresponding Mackey action is considered.