Strong rigidity of generalized Bernoulli actions and computations of their symmetry groups (Q2463531)

Let a measure-preserving action of a countable group \(G\) on the probability space \((X,\mu )\) be given. In the paper three types of equivalences between actions \(G\curvearrowright (X,\mu )\) and \(\Gamma \curvearrowright (Y,\eta )\) are given: 1) Von Neumann equivalence: the associated crossed products von Neumann algebras are isomorphic; 2) orbit equivalence: there exists a measure space isomorphism \(\Delta : X\rightarrow Y \) sending orbits to orbits a.e.; 3) conjugacy: there exists a measure space isomorphism \(\Delta :X\rightarrow Y\) and a group isomorphism \(\delta : G\rightarrow \Gamma\) such that \(\Delta (g\cdot x)=\delta (g)\cdot \Delta (x)\) a.e. Equivalence relations and \(\text{II}_1\) factors associated with (quotients of) generalized Bernoulli actions of Kazhdan groups are studied. Specific families of these actions are entirely classified up to isomorphisms of \(\text{II}_1\) factors. This yields explicit computations of outer automorphisms and fundamental groups. In particular, every finitely presented group is concretely realized as the outer automorphism group of a continuous family of nonstable isomorphic \(\text{II}_1\) factors.