We study actions of countable discrete groups which are amenable in the sense that there exists a mean on X which is invariant under the action of G. Assuming that G is nonamenable, we obtain structural results for the stabilizer subgroups of amenable actions which allow us to relate the first `-Betti number of G with that of the stabilizer subgroups. An analogous relationship is also shown to ...

We investigate the feasibility of performing quantum nondemolition (QND) measurements in one-dimensional Dirac oscillator, a frequently used toy model to relativistic extensions nonrelativistic effects. derive general expressions for its QND observables and find that they are complex combinations position, momentum, spin operators, which makes them challenging realize experimentally. However, s...

Throughout we let Γ be a discrete group. For f : Γ → C and each s ∈ Γ we define the left translation action by (s.f)(t) = f(s−1t). Definition 1.1. A group Γ is amenable is there exists a state μ on l∞(Γ) which is invariant under the left translation action: for all s ∈ Γ and f ∈ l∞(Γ), μ(s.f) = μ(f). Example 1.2. Finite groups are amenable: take the state which sends χ{s} to 1 |Γ| for each s ∈ ...

A Banach algebra A is weakly amenable provided that every bounded derivation from A to its dual A is inner. In H1], the rst-named author, building on earlier work of J. W. Bunce and W. L. Paschke BP], proved that every C-algebra is weakly amenable. We give a simpliied and uniied proof of this theorem. B. E. Johnson has proved that every bounded Jordan derivation from a C-algebra A to any Banach...

We prove Khintchine type inequalities for words of a fixed length in a reduced free product of C∗-algebras (or von Neumann algebras). These inequalities imply that the natural projection from a reduced free product onto the subspace generated by the words of a fixed length d is completely bounded with norm depending linearly on d. We then apply these results to various approximation properties ...

This work contains some structural results for von Neumann algebras arising from measure preserving actions by direct products of groups on probability spaces. The technology and the methods we use are a continuation of those used by Chifan and Sinclair in [Ionut Chifan and Thomas Sinclair. On the structural theory of II1 factors of negatively curved groups, ArXiv e-prints, March 2011]. By empl...

We prove that if a countable group Γ contains a non-amenable subgroup with centralizer infinite and “weakly normal” in Γ (e.g. if Γ is non-amenable and has infinite center or is a product of infinite groups) then any measure preserving Γ-action on a probability space which satisfies certain malleability, spectral gap and weak mixing conditions is cocycle superrigid. We also show that if Γ y X i...

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There are two notions of amenability for discrete equivalence relations. The \global" amenability (which is usually referred to just as \amenability") is the property of existence of leafwise invariant means, which, by a theorem of Connes{Feldman{Weiss, is equivalent to hyperrniteness, or, to being the orbit equivalence relation of a Z-action. The notion of \local" amenability applies to equiva...