Cocycle superrigidity for profinite actions of property (T) groups

Abstract: Consider a free ergodic measure preserving profinite action

G a m m a c u r v e a r r o w r i g h t X

(i.e. an inverse limit of actions

G a m m a c u r v e a r r o w r i g h t X_{n}

, with

X_{n}

finite) of a countable property (T) group

G a m m a

(more generally of a group

G a m m a

which admits an infinite normal subgroup

G a m m a_{0}

such that the inclusion

G a m m a_{0} s u b s e t G a m m a

has relative property (T) and

G a m m a / G a m m a_{0}

is finitely generated) on a standard probability space

X

. We prove that if

w : G a m m a i m e s X o L a m b d a

is a measurable cocycle with values in a countable group

L a m b d a

, then

w

is cohomologous to a cocycle

w^{'}

which factors through the map

G a m m a i m e s X o G a m m a i m e s X_{n}

, for some

n

. As a corollary, we show that any orbit equivalence of

G a m m a c u r v e a r r o w r i g h t X

with any free ergodic measure preserving action

L a m b d a c u r v e a r r o w r i g h t Y

comes from a (virtual) conjugacy of actions.

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