Alice Giraud | Searcharxiv

arXiv2023

Classification of non-free p.m.p. boolean actions of ergodic full groups and applications

We extend Dye's reconstruction theorem, which classifies isomorphisms between full groups, to a classification of homomorphisms between full groups. For full groups of ergodic p.m.p. equivalence relations, our result roughly says that such homomorphisms come only from actions of the equivalence relation, or of one of its symmetric powers. This has several rigidity consequences for homomorphisms between full groups. Our main application is a characterization of property (T) for ergodic p.m.p. equivalence relations purely in full group terms, without using their topology: an ergodic p.m.p. equivalence relation has (T) iff all non-free ergodic boolean actions of its full group are strongly ergodic.

math.GR↗

arXiv2019

Hyperfinite measure-preserving actions of countable groups and their model theory

We give a shorter proof of a theorem of G. Elek stating that two hyperfinite measure-preserving actions of a countable group on standard probability spaces are approximately conjugate if and only if they have the same invariant random subgroup. We then use this theorem to study model theory of hyperfinite measure-preserving actions of countable groups on probability spaces. This work generalizes the model-theoretic study of automorphisms of probability spaces conducted by I. Ben Yaacov, A. Berenstein, C. W. Henson and A. Usvyatsov.

math.DS↗