Infinitesimal containment and sparse factors of iid
Abstract
We introduce infinitesimal weak containment for measure-preserving actions of a countable group : an action is infinitesimally contained in if the statistics of the action of on small measure subsets of can be approximated inside . We show that the Bernoulli shift is infinitesimally contained in the left-regular action of . For exact groups, this implies that sparse factor-of-iid subsets of are approximately hyperfinite. We use it to quantify a theorem of Chifan--Ioana on measured subrelations of the Bernoulli shift of an exact group. For the proof of infinitesimal containment we define \emph{entropy support maps}, which take a small subset of and assign weights to coordinates above every point of , according to how ''important'' they are for the structure of the set.
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@article{arxiv.2512.09301,
title = {Infinitesimal containment and sparse factors of iid},
author = {Mikołaj Frączyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09301},
year = {2025}
}
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50 pages, 1 figure, comments welcome