Orbit equivalence rigidity for ergodic actions of the mapping class group (Q2481650)

Given an ergodic standard action \(\alpha\) of a discrete group, a is orbit equivalent super-rigid if: for any other ergodic standard action \(\beta\) of a discrete group which is weakly orbit equivalent to \(\alpha\), \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are virtually conjugate in a certain sense which is defined. In this paper, the author establishes orbit equivalence super-rigidity for certain ergodic, free measure preserving actions on a standard Borel probability space with a finite positive measure. This continues the work of \textit{A. Furman} [Ann. Math. 150, 1083--1108 (1999; Zbl 0943.22012)] (based on work by \textit{R. J. Zimmer} [Ergodic theory and semi-simple groups, Monogr. Math. 81, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1984; Zbl 0571.58015)]), who showed orbit equivalent super-rigidity for some ergodic standard actions of a lattice in a simple Lie group of higher real rank.