Free products, orbit equivalence and measure equivalence rigidity

DOI10.4171/GGD/150zbMATH Open1246.37007arXiv0806.2788MaRDI QIDQ763709FDOQ763709

Damien Gaboriau, Aurélien Alvarez

Publication date: 29 March 2012

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the analogue in orbit equivalence of free product decomposition and free indecomposability for countable groups. We introduce the (orbit equivalence invariant) notion of freely indecomposable ({FI}) standard probability measure preserving equivalence relations and establish a criterion to check it, namely non-hyperfiniteness and vanishing of the first $L^2$-Betti number. We obtain Bass-Serre rigidity results, extit{i.e.} forms of uniqueness in free product decompositions of equivalence relations with ({FI}) components. The main features of our work are weak algebraic assumptions and no ergodicity hypothesis for the components. We deduce, for instance, that a measure equivalence between two free products of non-amenable groups with vanishing first $el{l}^2$-Betti numbers is induced by measure equivalences of the components. We also deduce new classification results in Orbit Equivalence and II${}_1$ factors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2788

zbMATH Keywords

orbit equivalencemeasure equivalence\(L\)-Betti numbersfree product decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20)

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