Mixing actions of countable groups are almost free

DOI10.1090/PROC/12467MaRDI QIDQ3450067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robin Tucker-Drob

Publication date 2 November 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0655

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli factorBernoulli shiftessentially free actionFeit-Thompson theoremmeasure-preserving actionmixingnon-free actiontotally ergodic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25)

Abstract: A measure preserving action of a countably infinite group Gamma is called totally ergodic if every infinite subgroup of Gamma acts ergodically. For example, all mixing and mildly mixing actions are totally ergodic. This note shows that if an action of Gamma is totally ergodic then there exists a finite normal subgroup N of Gamma such that the stabilizer of almost every point is equal to N. Surprisingly the proof relies on the group theoretic fact (proved by Hall and Kulatilaka as well as by Kargapolov) that every infinite locally finite group contains an infinite abelian subgroup, of which all known proofs rely on the Feit-Thompson theorem. As a consequence we deduce a group theoretic characterization of countable groups whose non-trivial Bernoulli factors are all free: these are precisely the groups that posses no finite normal subgroup other than the trivial subgroup.

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