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About von Neumann's problem for locally compact groups

Group Theory 2019-05-21 v1 General Topology

Abstract

We note a generalization of Whyte's geometric solution to the von Neumann problem for locally compact groups in terms of Borel and clopen piecewise translations. This strengthens a result of Paterson on the existence of Borel paradoxical decompositions for non-amenable locally compact groups. Along the way, we study the connection between some geometric properties of coarse spaces and certain algebraic characteristics of their wobbling groups.

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@article{arxiv.1702.07955,
  title  = {About von Neumann's problem for locally compact groups},
  author = {Friedrich Martin Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07955},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, no figures

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