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The Furstenberg lemma characterizes amenability
Author:
Greg Hjorth
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 3061-3069
MSC (2000):
Primary 03E15, 37A20; Secondary 28A60, 03C15
Posted:
May 1, 2006
MathSciNet review:
2231633
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Abstract: We characterize amenability in terms of the existence of equivariant assignments of measures for cocycles into the homeomorphism group of a single compact metric space.
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Greg Hjorth
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
Email:
greg@math.ucla.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08321-3
PII:
S 0002-9939(06)08321-3
Keywords:
Amenability,
orbit equivalence,
mean,
homogeneous structure
Received by editor(s):
January 14, 2005
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
April 27, 2005
Posted:
May 1, 2006
Additional Notes:
This research was supported by NSF grant DMS 0140503
Communicated by:
Carl G. Jockusch, Jr.
Article copyright:
© Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
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