Proper cocycles and weak forms of amenability
Tom 138 / 2015
Colloquium Mathematicum 138 (2015), 73-87
MSC: Primary 22D05, 22D10.
DOI: 10.4064/cm138-1-5
Streszczenie
Let $G$ and $H$ be locally compact, second countable groups. Assume that $G$ acts in a measure class preserving way on a standard space $(X,\mu )$ such that $L^\infty (X,\mu )$ has an invariant mean and that there is a Borel cocycle $\alpha :G\times X\rightarrow H$ which is proper in the sense of Jolissaint (2000) and Knudby (2014). We show that if $H$ has one of the three properties: Haagerup property (a-T-menability), weak amenability or weak Haagerup property, then so does $G$. In particular, we show that if $\varGamma $ and $\varDelta $ are measure equivalent discrete groups in the sense of Gromov, then such cocycles exist and $\varGamma $ and $\varDelta $ share the same weak amenability properties above.