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The Furstenberg lemma characterizes amenability
Author(s):
Greg
Hjorth
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
134
(2006),
3061-3069.
MSC (2000):
Primary 03E15, 37A20;
Secondary 28A60, 03C15
Posted:
May 1, 2006
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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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Additional Information:
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:
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.
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2006,
American Mathematical Society
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