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Bernoulli actions of type III$_0$ with prescribed associated flow

Dynamical Systems 2024-02-06 v3 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We prove that many, but not all injective factors arise as crossed products by nonsingular Bernoulli actions of the group Z\mathbb{Z}. We obtain this result by proving a completely general result on the ergodicity, type and Krieger's associated flow for Bernoulli shifts with arbitrary base spaces. We prove that the associated flow must satisfy a structural property of infinite divisibility. Conversely, we prove that all almost periodic flows, as well as many other ergodic flows, do arise as associated flow of a weakly mixing Bernoulli action of any infinite amenable group. As a byproduct, we prove that all injective factors with almost periodic flow of weights are infinite tensor products of 2×22 \times 2 matrices. Finally, we construct Poisson suspension actions with prescribed associated flow for any locally compact second countable group that does not have property (T).

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@article{arxiv.2106.02471,
  title  = {Bernoulli actions of type III$_0$ with prescribed associated flow},
  author = {Tey Berendschot and Stefaan Vaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02471},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v3: minor changes, final version, to appear in Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu