Nonamenable Products are not Treeable
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Let X and Y be infinite graphs, such that the automorphism group of X is nonamenable, and the automorphism group of Y has an infinite orbit. We prove that there is no automorphism-invariant measure on the set of spanning trees in the direct product X × Y . This implies that the minimal spanning forest corresponding to i.i.d. edge-weights in such a product, has infinitely many connected components almost surely.
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