Amenable actions of groups

Adams, Scot; Elliott, George A.; Giordano, Thierry

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1250814-5

Amenable actions of groups
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by Scot Adams, George A. Elliott and Thierry Giordano

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 344 (1994), 803-822

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1250814-5

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Abstract:

The equivalence between different characterizations of amenable actions of a locally compact group is proved. In particular, this answers a question raised by R. J. Zimmer in 1977.

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