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Extensions of cocycles for hyperfinite actions and applications

P. GabrielKlaus SchmidtMariusz Lemańczyk

subject

CombinatoricsGroup extensionGeneral MathematicsErgodic theoryCountable setStandard probability spaceAutomorphismEquivalence (measure theory)Hyperfinite setCentralizer and normalizerMathematics

description

Given a countable, hyperfinite, ergodic and measure-preserving equivalence relationR on a standard probability space (X, ℬ, μ) and an elementW of the normalizerN (R) ofR, we investigate the problem of extendingR-cocycles to\(\bar R\), where\(\bar R\) is the relation generated byR andW. As an application, we obtain that for a Bernoulli automorphism the smallest family of natural factors in sense of [6] consists of all factors. Given an automorphism which is embeddable in a measurable flow and a compact, metric group, we show that for a typical cocycle we cannot lift the whole flow to the centralizer of the corresponding group extension.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01318233