Dynamics and the cohomology of measured laminations (Q272139)

Summary: In this paper, the interconnection between the cohomology of measured group actions and the cohomology of measured laminations is explored, the latter being a generalization of the former for the case of discrete group actions and cocycles evaluated on abelian groups. This relation gives a rich interplay between these concepts. Several results can be adapted to this setting -- for instance, Zimmer's reduction of the coefficient group of bounded cocycles or Fustenberg's cohomological obstruction for extending the ergodicity \(\mathbb Z\)-action to a skew product relative to an \(S^1\) evaluated cocycle. Another way to think about foliated cocycles is also shown, and a particular application is the characterization of the existence of certain classes of invariant measures for smooth foliations in terms of the \(L^\infty\)-cohomology class of the infinitesimal holonomy.