60 research outputs found

    Orbit Equivalence and Measured Group Theory

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    We give a survey of various recent developments in orbit equivalence and measured group theory. This subject aims at studying infinite countable groups through their measure preserving actions.Comment: 2010 Hyderabad ICM proceeding; Dans Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India - International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Hyderabad : India (2010

    Relative Property (T) Actions and Trivial Outer Automorphism Groups

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    We show that every non-amenable free product of groups admits free ergodic probability measure preserving actions which have relative property (T) in the sense of S.-Popa \cite[Def. 4.1]{Pop06}. There are uncountably many such actions up to orbit equivalence and von Neumann equivalence, and they may be chosen to be conjugate to any prescribed action when restricted to the free factors. We exhibit also, for every non-amenable free product of groups, free ergodic probability measure preserving actions whose associated equivalence relation has trivial outer automorphisms group. This gives in particular the first examples of such actions for the free group on 22 generators.Comment: Improvement in the presentation of the replacement trick. Introduction of compressions for non-ergodic equivalence relation

    Invariant Percolation and Harmonic Dirichlet Functions

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    The main goal of this paper is to answer question 1.10 and settle conjecture 1.11 of Benjamini-Lyons-Schramm [BLS99] relating harmonic Dirichlet functions on a graph to those of the infinite clusters in the uniqueness phase of Bernoulli percolation. We extend the result to more general invariant percolations, including the Random-Cluster model. We prove the existence of the nonuniqueness phase for the Bernoulli percolation (and make some progress for Random-Cluster model) on unimodular transitive locally finite graphs admitting nonconstant harmonic Dirichlet functions. This is done by using the device of â„“2\ell^2 Betti numbers.Comment: to appear in Geometric And Functional Analysis (GAFA

    What is Cost?

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    Two-page paper on the notion of cost of groups and measured equivalence relations to appear in the "What is?" series in the Notices of the AMS.Comment: 2 page

    Approximations of standard equivalence relations and Bernoulli percolation at p\_u

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    The goal of this note is to announce certain results in orbit equivalence theory, especially concerning the approximation of p.m.p. standard equivalence relations by increasing sequence of sub-relations, with applications to the behavior of the Bernoulli percolation on graphs at the threshold pu. R\'esum\'e en Fran\c{c}ais. Approximations de relations d'\'equivalence standards et percolation de Bernoulli \`a p\_u

    Examples of Groups that are Measure Equivalent to the Free Group

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    Published: Ergodic Theory & Dynam. Systems, 25 (2005), no. 6, 1809-1827.International audienceMeasure Equivalence (ME) is the measure theoretic counterpart of quasi-isometry. This field grew considerably during the last years, developing tools to distinguish between different ME classes of countable groups. On the other hand, contructions of ME equivalent groups are very rare. We present a new method, based on a notion of measurable free-factor, and we apply it to exhibit a new family of groups that are measure equivalent to the free group. We also present a quite extensive survey on results about Measure Equivalence for countable groups

    Entropie sofique d'après Lewis Bowen, David Kerr et Hanfeng Li: Séminaire Bourbaki du 16 janvier 2016

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    International audienceThe entropy in dynamical systems was introduced by A. Kolmogorov. Initially dedicated to iterations of one finite measure preserving transformation, the notion was gradually generalized so as to encompass amenable group actions and topological actions. L. Bowen (2008) succeeded in breaking the non-amenable frontier by introducing the sofic entropy. This invariant provides the same services as the classical entropy for the measured actions of the sofic groups (a class which contains the residually finite groups). In 2010, D. Kerr et H. Li established a topological version together with a variational principle.L'entropie, en systèmes dynamiques, fut introduite par A. Kolmogorov. Initialement focalisée sur les itérations d'une transformation préservant une mesure finie, la notion fut peu à peu généralisée, jusqu'à embrasser les actions des groupes moyen-nables ainsi que les actions topologiques. L. Bowen (2008) parvint à franchir la barrière du non moyennable en introduisant l'entropie sofique. Cet invariant rend les mêmes services que l'entropie classique pour les actions mesurées des groupes sofiques (une classe qui contient les groupes résiduellement finis). En 2010, D. Kerr et H. Li mirent au point une version topologique et un principe variationnel
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