A Measurable-Group-Theoretic Solution to von Neumann's Problem

D. Gaboriau, R. Lyons


Inventiones Mathematicae, 177 (2009), 533--540.

DOI:    10.1007/s00222-009-0187-5
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Abstract:


We give a positive answer, in the measurable-group-theory context, to von Neumann's problem of knowing whether a non-amenable countable discrete group contains a non-cyclic free subgroup. We also get an embedding result of the free-group von Neumann factor into restricted wreath product factors.