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A converse to Dye's theorem

Author(s): Greg Hjorth
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), 3083-3103.
MSC (2000): Primary 03E15, 28D15, 37A15
Posted: July 22, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2135736
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Abstract: Every non-amenable countable group induces orbit inequivalent ergodic equivalence relations on standard Borel probability spaces. Not every free, ergodic, measure preserving action of $\mathbb{F} _2$ on a standard Borel probability space is orbit equivalent to an action of a countable group on an inverse limit of finite spaces. There is a treeable non-hyperfinite Borel equivalence relation which is not universal for treeable in the $\leq_B$ ordering.

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