Finite entropy actions of free groups, rigidity of stabilizers, and a Howe-Moore type phenomenon

DOI10.1007/S11854-016-0023-YMaRDI QIDQ327608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brandon Seward

Publication date 19 October 2016

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5090

zbMATH Keywords

entropyKolmogorov-Sinai entropymeasure preserving action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Measurable group actions (22F10) Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40)

Abstract: We study a notion of entropy for probability measure preserving actions of finitely generated free groups, called f-invariant entropy, introduced by Lewis Bowen. In the degenerate case, the f-invariant entropy is negative infinity. In this paper we investigate the qualitative consequences of having finite f-invariant entropy. We find three main properties of such actions. First, the stabilizers occurring in factors of such actions are highly restricted. Specifically, the stabilizer of almost every point must be either trivial or of finite index. Second, such actions are very chaotic in the sense that, when the space is not essentially countable, every non-identity group element acts with infinite Kolmogorov--Sinai entropy. Finally, we show that such actions display behavior reminiscent of the Howe--Moore property. Specifically, if the action is ergodic then there is an integer n such that for every non-trivial normal subgroup K the number of K-ergodic components is at most n. Our results are based on a new formula for f-invariant entropy.

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