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Group measure space decomposition of II_1 factors and W*-superrigidity

Operator Algebras 2015-05-13 v2 Dynamical Systems Group Theory

Abstract

We prove a "unique crossed product decomposition" result for group measure space II_1 factors arising from arbitrary free ergodic probability measure preserving (p.m.p.) actions of groups \Gamma in a fairly large family G, which contains all free products of a Kazhdan group and a non-trivial group, as well as certain amalgamated free products over an amenable subgroup. We deduce that if T_n denotes the group of upper triangular matrices in PSL(n,Z), then any free, mixing p.m.p. action of the amalgamated free product of PSL(n,Z) with itself over T_n, is W*-superrigid, i.e. any isomorphism between L^\infty(X) \rtimes \Gamma and an arbitrary group measure space factor L^\infty(Y) \rtimes \Lambda, comes from a conjugacy of the actions. We also prove that for many groups \Gamma in the family G, the Bernoulli actions of \Gamma are W*-superrigid.

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@article{arxiv.0906.2765,
  title  = {Group measure space decomposition of II_1 factors and W*-superrigidity},
  author = {Sorin Popa and Stefaan Vaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2765},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Final version. Some extra details have been added to improve the exposition