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This small survey of basic universal constructions related to the actions of topological groups on compacta is centred around a new result --- an intrinsic description of extremely amenable topological groups (i.e., those having a fixed…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Vladimir Pestov

We show that topological amenability of an action of a countable discrete group on a compact space is equivalent to the existence of an invariant mean for the action. We prove also that this is equivalent to vanishing of bounded cohomology…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-05 Jacek Brodzki , Graham A. Niblo , Piotr Nowak , Nick Wright

For a countable amenable group \Gamma and an element f in the integral group ring Z\Gamma being invertible in the group von Neumann algebra of \Gamma, we show that the entropy of the shift action of \Gamma on the Pontryagin dual of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Hanfeng Li

In this paper we generalize [BS22, Main Theorem] from actions of a single transformation to amenable group actions, which answers affirmatively the question raised in [BS22] by Burguet and the first-named author of the paper.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Ruxi Shi , Guohua Zhang

Extensive amenability is a property of group actions which has recently been used as a tool to prove amenability of groups. We study this property and prove that it is preserved under a very general construction of semidirect products. As…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Kate Juschenko , Nicolás Matte Bon , Nicolas Monod , Mikael de la Salle

We prove a converse to Myhill's "Garden-of-Eden" theorem and obtain in this manner a characterization of amenability in terms of cellular automata: "A group $G$ is amenable if and only if every cellular automaton with carrier $G$ that has…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Laurent Bartholdi , Dawid Kielak

In this paper, we introduce a weak form of amenability on topological semigroups that we call $\varphi$-amenability, where $\varphi$ is a character on a topological semigroup. Some basic properties of this new notion are obtained and by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ali Jabbari , Ali Ebadian , Madjid Eshaghi Gordji

We introduce a new equivalence relation on groups, which we call von Neumann equivalence, that is coarser than both measure equivalence and $W^*$-equivalence. We introduce a general procedure for inducing actions in this setting and use…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Ishan Ishan , Jesse Peterson , Lauren Ruth

We answer an open question of Grigorchuk and Zuk about amenability using random walks. Our results separate the class of amenable groups from the closure of subexponentially growing groups under the operations of group extension and direct…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Laurent Bartholdi , Balint Virag

We show that the universal minimimal proximal flow and the universal minimal strongly proximal flow of a discrete group can be realized as the Stone spaces of translation invariant Boolean algebras of subsets of the group satisfying a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Matthew Kennedy , Sven Raum , Guy Salomon

We show that amenability of a group acting by homeomorphisms can be deduced from a certain local property of the action and recurrency of the orbital Schreier graphs. This covers amenability of a wide class groups, the amenability of which…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Kate Juschenko , Volodymyr Nekrashevych , Mikael de la Salle

In this paper, we introduce the notions of lowerable, D-lowerable, P-lowerable, hereditarily lowerable, and hereditarily uniformly lowerable for countably infinite amenable group actions. We show that a system with finite entropy is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Xiaochen Wang

We generalize the notion of isoperimetric profiles of finitely generated groups to their actions by measuring the boundary of finite subgraphings of the orbit graphing. We prove that like the classical isoperimetric profiles for groups,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Zihan Xia

We introduce computable actions of computable groups and prove the following versions of effective Birkhoff's ergodic theorem. Let $\Gamma$ be a computable amenable group, then there always exists a canonically computable tempered two-sided…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Nikita Moriakov

We show that any second-countable \'etale groupoid with polynomial growth is topologically amenable. If its unit space is compact and metrizable, we show that the groupoid has weak $m$-comparison. Thus if the groupoid is also ample and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Are Austad , Christian Bönicke

In this short paper we show that if $(G,H)$ is an amenable Hecke pair and $\Gamma$ is a subgroup of $G$ containing $H$, then the Hecke pair $(\Gamma, H)$ is amenable too. This answers positively a question of Pierre Eymard, asked in 1972,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Vahid Shirbisheh

We investigate an analogue of the L^2-Betti numbers for amenable linear subshifts. The role of the von Neumann dimension shall be played by the topological entropy.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabor Elek

For finitely generated groups $G$ and $H$ equipped with word metrics, a translation-like action of $H$ on $G$ is a free action where each element of $H$ moves elements of $G$ a bounded distance. Translation-like actions provide a geometric…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-28 D. B. McReynolds , Mark Pengitore

We construct a geometric model for the mapping class group M of a non-exceptional oriented surface of finite type and use it to show that the action of M on the compact Hausdorff space of complete geodesic laminations is topologically…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-19 Ursula Hamenstaedt

We pursue the study of $\mathrm L^1$ full groups of graphings and of the closures of their derived groups, which we call derived $\mathrm L^1$ full groups. Our main result shows that aperiodic probability measure-preserving actions of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-24 François Le Maître