The space of stable weak equivalence classes of measure-preserving actions (Q1709722)

The authors study the concept of stable weak containment for measure-preserving actions of a countable group \(G\), which is analogous to the classical notion of stable weak containment of unitary representations. If \(G\) is amenable then according to the Rokhlin lemma all essentially free actions are weakly equivalent. The situation is different in the non-amenable case. The main result is that the set of stable weak equivalence classes naturally admits the structure of a Choquet simplex. It is shown also that when \(G\) contains a nonabelian free group, this simplex has uncountably many strongly ergodic essentially free extreme points.