English

Actions of F_\infty whose II_1 factors and orbit equivalence relations have prescribed fundamental group

Operator Algebras 2015-05-13 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that given any subgroup F of R_+ which is either countable or belongs to a certain "large" class of uncountable subgroups, there exist continuously many free ergodic probability measure preserving actions \sigma_i of the free group with infinitely many generators such that their associated group measure space II_1 factors M_i and orbit equivalence relations R_i have fundamental group equal to F and with M_i (respectively R_i) stably non-isomorphic. Moreover, these actions can be taken so that R_i has no outer automorphisms and any automorphism of M_i is unitary conjugate to an automorphism that acts trivially on L(Xi)MiL^\infty(X_i) \subset M_i.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0803.3351,
  title  = {Actions of F_\infty whose II_1 factors and orbit equivalence relations have prescribed fundamental group},
  author = {Sorin Popa and Stefaan Vaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.3351},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

1) Minor changes w.r.t. v2. 2) Comment about v2: a modification of our main result provides now the first examples of separable II_1 factors and equivalence relations with uncountable fundamental group different from R_+