Every action of a nonamenable group is the factor of a small action

DOI10.3934/JMD.2014.8.251zbMATH Open1351.37010arXiv1311.0738OpenAlexW2962793790MaRDI QIDQ478803FDOQ478803

Authors: Brandon Seward 

Publication date: 4 December 2014

Published in: Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that if $G$ is a countable amenable group and $Gcurvearrowright(Y,u)$ factors onto $Gcurvearrowright(X,mu)$, then the entropy of the first action must be greater than or equal to the entropy of the second action. In particular, if $Gcurvearrowright(X,mu)$ has infinite entropy, then the action $Gcurvearrowright(Y,u)$ does not admit any finite generating partition. On the other hand, we prove that if $G$ is a countable non-amenable group then there exists a finite integer $n$ with the following property: for every probability-measure-preserving action $Gcurvearrowright(X,mu)$ there is a $G$-invariant probability measure $u$ on $n^G$ such that $Gcurvearrowright(n^G,u)$ factors onto $Gcurvearrowright(X,mu)$. For many non-amenable groups, $n$ can be chosen to be $4$ or smaller. We also obtain a similar result with respect to continuous actions on compact spaces and continuous factor maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0738

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zbMATH Keywords

entropygenerating partitionPolish action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Topological entropy (37B40)

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