Some extremely amenable groups related to operator algebras and ergodic theory

Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-315

  Giordano, Thierry ^a   Pestov, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

concentration of measure; extremely amenable groups; full group; groups of measure space transformations; L vy groups; unitary groups of von Neumann algebras

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951084352     PISSN: 14747480     EISSN: 14753030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474748006000090     Document Type: Article

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