\mathrm{L}^1 full groups of flows

arXiv2108.09009MaRDI QIDQ6375657FDOQ6375657

Authors: François Le Maître, Konstantin Slutsky 

Publication date: 20 August 2021

Abstract: We introduce the concept of an $mathrm{L}^1$ full group associated with a measure-preserving action of a Polish normed group on a standard probability space. Such groups are shown to carry a natural separable complete metric, and are thus Polish. Our construction generalizes $mathrm{L}^1$ full groups of actions of discrete groups, which have been studied recently by the first author. We show that under minor assumptions on the actions, topological derived subgroups of $mathrm{L}^1$ full groups are topologically simple and - when the acting group is locally compact and amenable - are whirly amenable and generically two-generated. For measure-preserving actions of the real line (also known as measure-preserving flows), the topological derived subgroup of an $mathrm{L}^1$ full groups is shown to coincide with the kernel of the index map, which implies that $mathrm{L}^1$ full groups of free measure-preserving flows are topologically finitely generated if and only if the flow admits finitely many ergodic components. The latter is in a striking contrast to the case of $mathbbZ$-actions, where the number of topological generators is controlled by the entropy of the action.

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