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A spectral strong approximation theorem for measure-preserving actions

Part of: Ergodic theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

MIKLÓS ABÉRT
MIKLÓS ABÉRT*
Affiliation:
MTA Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Realtanoda utca 13–15, Budapest 1053, Hungary email [email protected]
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Abstract

Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ be a finitely generated group acting by probability measure-preserving maps on the standard Borel space $(X,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$. We show that if $H\leq \unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ is a subgroup with relative spectral radius greater than the global spectral radius of the action, then $H$ acts with finitely many ergodic components and spectral gap on $(X,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$. This answers a question of Shalom who proved this for normal subgroups.

Keywords

group actions

MSC classification

Primary: 37A30: Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators
Secondary: 37A15: General groups of measure-preserving transformations
Type
Original Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , April 2020 , pp. 865 - 880
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press, 2018

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