structural properties of inner amenable discrete groups

Structural Properties of Inner Amenable Discrete Groups

Amenable Actions and Exactness for Discrete Groups

It is proved that a discrete group G is exact if and only if its left translation action on the Stone-Čech compactification is amenable. Combining this with an unpublished result of Gromov, we have the existence of non exact discrete groups. In [KW], Kirchberg and Wassermann discussed exactness for groups. A discrete group G is said to be exact if its reduced group C-algebra C λ(G) is exact. Th...

Invariant Means and the Structure of Inner Amenable Groups

We study actions of countable discrete groups which are amenable in the sense that there exists a mean on X which is invariant under the action of G. Assuming that G is nonamenable, we obtain structural results for the stabilizer subgroups of amenable actions which allow us to relate the first `-Betti number of G with that of the stabilizer subgroups. An analogous relationship is also shown to ...

Classification of Strongly Free Actions of Discrete Amenable Groups on Strongly Amenable Subfactors of Type Iii0

In the theory of operator algebras, classification of group actions on approximately finite dimensional (AFD) factors has been done since Connes’s work [2]. In subfactor theory, various results on classification of group actions have been obtained. The most powerful results have been obtained by Popa in [16], who classified the strongly outer actions of discrete amenable groups on strongly amen...

Classification of Actions of Discrete Amenable Groups on Amenable Subfactors of Type Ii

We prove a classification result for properly outer actions σ of discrete amenable groups G on strongly amenable subfactors of type II, N ⊂ M , a class of subfactors that were shown to be completely classified by their standard invariant GN,M , in ([Po7]). The result shows that the action σ is completely classified in terms of the action it induces on GN,M . As a an application of this, we obta...

Amenable Groups

Throughout we let Γ be a discrete group. For f : Γ → C and each s ∈ Γ we define the left translation action by (s.f)(t) = f(s−1t). Definition 1.1. A group Γ is amenable is there exists a state μ on l∞(Γ) which is invariant under the left translation action: for all s ∈ Γ and f ∈ l∞(Γ), μ(s.f) = μ(f). Example 1.2. Finite groups are amenable: take the state which sends χ{s} to 1 |Γ| for each s ∈ ...