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𝑊∗-Superrigidity for arbitrary actions of central quotients of braid groups
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𝑊∗-Superrigidity for arbitrary actions of central quotients of braid groups

Ionut Chifan, Adrian Ioana and Yoshikata Kida
Mathematische annalen, Vol.361(3-4), pp.563-582
04/01/2015
DOI: 10.1007/s00208-014-1077-8
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.5245View
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Abstract

For any let be the quotient of the braid group through its center. We prove that any free ergodic probability measure preserving (pmp) action is virtually -superrigid in the following sense: if , for an arbitrary free ergodic pmp action , then the actions are virtually conjugate. Moreover, we prove that the same holds if is replaced with a finite index subgroup of the direct product , for some . The proof uses the dichotomy theorem for normalizers inside crossed products by free groups from Popa and Vaes (212, 141-198, 2014) in combination with the OE superrigidity theorem for actions of mapping class groups from Kida (131, 99-109, 2008). Similar techniques allow us to prove that if a group is hyperbolic relative to a finite family of proper, finitely generated, residually finite, infinite subgroups, then the factor has a unique Cartan subalgebra, up to unitary conjugacy, for any free ergodic pmp action . Gamma (X, mu).
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