Stabilizer rigidity in irreducible group actions (Q503263)

An invariant random subgroup of a locally compact second countable group is a random variable taking values in the space of closed subgroups of \(G\) with a distribution invariant under conjugation by elements of \(G\), and the main results here are concerned with the question of determining what invariant random subgroups a product group will admit. Of course the product of two invariant random subgroups is an example, but under an irreducibility hypothesis on an invariant random subgroup \(K\) of \(G=G_1\times G_2\) it is shown here that there are closed normal subgroups \(N_1\), \(N_2\) of \(G_1\), \(G_2\) respectively with the property that \(K\) is co-amenable in \(N_1\times N_2\). In addition it is shown that if \(G\) is a connected semi-simple Lie group with finite centre, no compact factors and real rank at least \(2\), then (again under a suitable irreducibility assumption) any invariant random subgroup \(K\) is either equal to a closed normal subgroup or is co-amenable in \(G\). A particular feature of this work is that the groups in question are not required to have property (T), so they give some insight into rigidity results for irreducible invariant random subgroups of products groups like \({SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\times {SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\) that do not come within the scope of earlier work in this direction of \textit{U. Bader} and \textit{Y. Shalom} [Invent. Math. 163, No. 2, 415--454 (2006; Zbl 1085.22005)] or \textit{G. Stuck} and \textit{R. J. Zimmer} [Ann. Math. (2) 139, No. 3, 723--747 (1994; Zbl 0836.22018)].