Spatial and non-spatial actions of Polish groups

E. Glasner*, B. Weiss

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Abstract

For locally compact groups all actions on a standard measure algebra have a spatial realization. For many Polish groups this is no longer the case. However, we show here that for non-archimedean Polish groups all measure algebra actions do have spatial realizations. In the other direction we show that an action of a Polish group is whirly ('ergodic at the identity') if and only if it admits no spatial factors and that all actions of a Lévy group are whirly. We also show that in the Polish group Aut(X, X, μ), for the generic automorphism T the action of the subgroup Λ(T) = cls {Tn : n ∈ ℤ} on the Lebesgue space (X, X, μ) is whirly.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1521-1538
Number of pages18
JournalErgodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2005

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