Dynamical properties of profinite actions

DOI10.1017/S0143385711000654zbMATH Open1297.37004arXiv1005.3188OpenAlexW2963313408MaRDI QIDQ4911049FDOQ4911049

Authors: Miklós Abért, Gábor Elek 

Publication date: 13 March 2013

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study profinite actions of residually finite groups in terms of weak containment. We show that two strongly ergodic profinite actions of a group are weakly equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic. This allows us to construct continuum many pairwise weakly inequivalent free actions of a large class of groups, including free groups and linear groups with property (T). We also prove that for chains of subgroups of finite index, Lubotzky's property ($au$) is inherited when taking the intersection with a fixed subgroup of finite index. That this is not true for families of subgroups in general leads to answering the question of Lubotzky and Zuk, whether for families of subgroups, property ($au$) is inherited to the lattice of subgroups generated by the family. On the other hand, we show that for families of normal subgroups of finite index, the above intersection property does hold. In fact, one can give explicite estimates on how the spectral gap changes when passing to the intersection. Our results also have an interesting graph theoretical consequence that does not use the language of groups. Namely, we show that an expander covering tower of finite regular graphs is either bipartite or stays bounded away from being bipartite in the normalized edge distance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3188

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zbMATH Keywords

weak equivalenceprofinite actionKazhdan's propertyLubotzky's property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Dynamical systems involving maps of trees and graphs (37E25)

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