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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 243: Seminar in Functional Analysis

Koichi Oyakawa

McGill University

Hyperfiniteness of the boundary action of virtually special groups

Abstract:

A Borel equivalence relation on a Polish space is called hyperfinite if it can be approximated by equivalence relations with finite classes. This notion has long been studied in descriptive set theory to measure complexity of Borel equivalence relations. Recently, a lot of research has been done on hyperfiniteness of the orbit equivalence relation on the Gromov boundary induced by various group actions on hyperbolic spaces. In this talk, I will explain my attempt to explore this connection of Borel complexity and geometric group theory for another intensively studied geometric object, which is CAT(0) cube complexes. More precisely, we prove that for any countable group acting virtually specially on a CAT(0) cube complex, the orbit equivalence relation induced by its action on the Roller boundary is hyperfinite.

November 18, 2025

11:00 AM

APM 6402

Research Areas

Functional Analysis / Operator Theory

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