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Orbit equivalence and actions of

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Asge Törnquist
Asge Törnquist*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, Dk-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: asgert@math.ku.dk
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Abstract

In this paper we show that there are “E0 many” orbit inequivalent free actions of the free groups , 2 ≤ n ≤ ∞ by measure preserving transformations on a standard Borel probability space. In particular, there are uncountably many such actions.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 265 - 282
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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