Fundamental group of uniquely ergodic Cantor minimal systems (Q424568)

Let \(X\) be the Cantor set. Given a countable discrete group \(G\) and a uniquely ergodic Cantor minimal \(G\)-system \(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}\) with an \(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}\)-invariant probability measure \(\mu\), the authors introduce the fundamental group \(\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi})\) of \(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}\) as the set of all numbers \((\mu \times \delta)(U)\), for \(U\) clopen in \(X \times \{1,\ldots,n\}\), such that \(\mathcal{R}^n_{G,\varphi}|_U\) is (topologically) orbit equivalent to \(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}\), where \(\delta\) denotes the counting measure on \(\{1,\ldots,n\}\). They prove that \(\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi})\) is a countable multiplicative subgroup of \(\mathbb{R}^{\times}_{+}\). They also prove that if \(R\) is a countable unital subring of \(\mathbb{R}\), then there exists a uniquely ergodic Cantor minimal \(\mathbb{Z}\)-system \(\mathcal{R}_{\mathbb{Z},\varphi}\) such that \(\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{R}_{\mathbb{Z},\varphi}) = R^{\times}_{+}\). Conversely, if \(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}\) arises from a uniquely ergodic free action of a finitely generated abelian group, then there exists a countable unital subring \(R\) of \(\mathbb{R}\) such that \(\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{R}_{G,\varphi}) = R^{\times}_{+}\). The authors also consider the relation between fundamental groups of uniquely ergodic Cantor minimal \(\mathbb{Z}^n\)-systems and fundamental groups of crossed product \(C^\ast\)-algebras \(C(X) \rtimes_\varphi \mathbb{Z}^n\).