About von Neumann's problem for locally compact groups (Q1731737)

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.