The space of stable weak equivalence classes of measure-preserving actions

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2017.12.003MaRDI QIDQ1709722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lewis Bowen, Robin Tucker-Drob

Publication date 6 April 2018

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03528

zbMATH Keywords

measure-preserving actionRokhlin lemmaweak containment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Measurable group actions (22F10) Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35)

Abstract: The concept of (stable) weak containment for measure-preserving actions of a countable group $Gamma$ is analogous to the classical notion of (stable) weak containment of unitary representations. If $Gamma$ is amenable then the Rokhlin lemma shows that all essentially free actions are weakly equivalent. However if $Gamma$ is non-amenable then there can be many different weak and stable weak equivalence classes. Our main result is that the set of stable weak equivalence classes naturally admits the structure of a Choquet simplex. For example, when $Gamma=mathbbZ$ this simplex has only a countable set of extreme points but when $Gamma$ is a nonamenable free group, this simplex is the Poulsen simplex. We also show that when $Gamma$ contains a nonabelian free group, this simplex has uncountably many strongly ergodic essentially free extreme points.

Review text

The authors study the concept of stable weak containment for measure-preserving actions of a countable group \(G\), which is analogous to the classical notion of stable weak containment of unitary representations. If \(G\) is amenable then according to the Rokhlin lemma all essentially free actions are weakly equivalent. The situation is different in the non-amenable case. The main result is that the set of stable weak equivalence classes naturally admits the structure of a Choquet simplex. It is shown also that when \(G\) contains a nonabelian free group, this simplex has uncountably many strongly ergodic essentially free extreme points.

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