Amenability and paradoxical decompositions for pseudogroups and for discrete metric spaces (Q4518103)

The article is dedicated to a wide variety of questions connected with amenability and paradoxical decompositions for pseudogroups and discrete metric spaces. The authors effectively demonstrate that paradoxical decompositions are associated with amenability and not with the property of ``exponential growth'' [compare with \textit{W. A. Deuber}, \textit{M. Simonowitz} and \textit{V. T. Sós}, Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 30, 17-23 (1995; Zbl 0857.54030)]. It is proven that the existence of invariant means for pseudogroups is equivalent to Følner's condition. The authors define the Tarski number as the minimal number of pieces in paradoxical decompositions associated with nonamenable group actions and give estimates for this number. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00074].