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On the cost of generating an equivalence relation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Gilbert Levitt
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Topologie et Géométrie, URA CNRS 1408, Université Toulouse III, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France (levitt@cict.fr)

Abstract

Given a measure-preserving equivalence relation R with countable classes, we study relations between the properties of R and metric invariants. We give applications to pseudogroups of measure-preserving homeomorphisms.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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