English

Cocycle Superrigidity for Profinite Actions of Property (T) Groups

Group Theory 2008-05-21 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

Consider a free ergodic measure preserving profinite action ΓX\Gamma\curvearrowright X (i.e. an inverse limit of actions ΓXn\Gamma\curvearrowright X_n, with XnX_n finite) of a countable property (T) group Γ\Gamma (more generally of a group Γ\Gamma which admits an infinite normal subgroup Γ0\Gamma_0 such that the inclusion Γ0Γ\Gamma_0\subset\Gamma has relative property (T) and Γ/Γ0\Gamma/\Gamma_0 is finitely generated) on a standard probability space XX. We prove that if w:Γ×XΛw:\Gamma\times X\to \Lambda is a measurable cocycle with values in a countable group Λ\Lambda, then ww is cohomologous to a cocycle ww' which factors through the map Γ×XΓ×Xn\Gamma\times X\to \Gamma\times X_n, for some nn. As a corollary, we show that any orbit equivalence of ΓX\Gamma\curvearrowright X with any free ergodic measure preserving action ΛY\Lambda\curvearrowright Y comes from a (virtual) conjugacy of actions.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0805.2998,
  title  = {Cocycle Superrigidity for Profinite Actions of Property (T) Groups},
  author = {Adrian Ioana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2998},
  year   = {2008}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:42:20.561Z