Irreducible Koopman representations for nonsingular actions on boundaries of rooted trees

Consider a tree $\mathbb T$, all whose vertices have countable valence; its boundary is the Baire space $\mathbb{B} \simeq\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb N}$; continued fractions expansions identify the set of irrational numbers $\mathbb{R}\setminus \mathbb{Q}$ with $\mathbb B$. Removing $k$ edges from $\mathbb T$ we get a forest consisting of copies of $\mathbb T$. A spheromorphism (or hierarchomorphism) of $\mathbb T$ is an isomorphisms of two such subforests considered as a transforma...

If $G$ is a group acting on a tree $X$, and ${\mathcal S}$ is a $G$-equivariant sheaf of vector spaces on $X$, then its compactly-supported cohomology is a representation of $G$. Under a finiteness hypothesis, we prove that if $H_c^0(X, {\mathcal S})$ is an irreducible representation of $G$, then $H_c^0(X, {\mathcal S})$ arises by induction from a vertex or edge stabilizing subgroup. If $G$ is a reductive group over a nonarchimedean local field $F$, then Schneider and Stuhl...

Given an action by a finitely generated group G on a locally finite tree T, we view points of the visual boundary \partialT as directions in T and use {\rho} to lift this sense of direction to G. For each point E \in \partialT, this allows us to ask if G is (n - 1)-connected "in the direction of E". The invariant {\Sigma}^n({\rho}) \subseteq \partialT then records the set of directions in which G is (n-1)-connected. In this paper, we introduce a family of actions for which {\...

We classify the irreducible unitary representations of closed simple groups of automorphisms of trees acting $2$-transitively on the boundary and whose local action at every vertex contains the alternating group. As an application, we confirm Claudio Nebbia's CCR conjecture on trees for $(d_0,d_1)$-semi-regular trees such that $d_0,d_1\in \Theta$, where $\Theta$ is an asymptotically dense set of positive integers.

Consider the inductive limit of the general linear groups ${\rm GL}_0(2\infty,{\mathbb R})$ $= \varinjlim_{n}{\rm GL}(2n-1,{\mathbb R})$, acting on the space $X_m$ of $m$ rows, infinite in both directions, with Gaussian measure. This measure is the infinite tensor product of one-dimensional arbitrary Gaussian non-centered measures. In this article we prove an irreducibility criterion for $m=3$. In 2019, the first author [28] established a criterion for $m\le 2$. Our proof is ...

We introduce the $C^*$-algebra $C^*(\kappa)$ generated by the Koopman representation $\kappa$ of an \'etale groupoid $G$ acting on a measure space $(X,\mu)$. We prove that for a level transitive self-similar action $(G,E)$ with $E$ finite and $|uE^1|$ constant, there is an invariant measure $\nu$ on $X=E^\infty$ and that $C^*(\kappa)$ is residually finite-dimensional with a normalized self-similar trace. We also discus $p$-fold similarities of Hilbert spaces in connection to ...

We identify natural conditions for a countable group acting on a countable tree which imply that the orbit equivalence relation of the induced action on the Gromov boundary is Borel hyperfinite. Examples of this condition include acylindrical actions. We also identify a natural weakening of the aforementioned conditions that implies measure hyperfinitenss of the boundary action. We then document examples of group actions on trees whose boundary action is not hyperfinite.

Our aim is to find the irreducibility criteria for the Koopman representation, when the group acts on some space with a measure (Conjecture 1.5). Some general necessary conditions of the irreducibility of this representation are established. In the particular case of the group ${\rm GL}_0(2\infty,{\mathbb R})$ $= \varinjlim_{n}{\rm GL}(2n-1,{\mathbb R})$, the inductive limit of the general linear groups we prove that these conditions are also the necessary ones. The correspon...

In this paper we show that, for a class of countable graphs, every representation of the associated graph algebra in a separable Hilbert space is unitarily equivalent to a representation obtained via branching systems.

We study the $C^*$-algebra $C^*(\kappa)$ generated by the Koopman representation $\kappa=\kappa^\mu$ of a locally compact groupoid $G$ acting on a measure space $(X,\mu)$, where $\mu$ is quasi-invariant for the action. We interpret $\kappa$ as an induced representation and we prove that if the groupoid $G\ltimes X$ is amenable, then $\kappa$ is weakly contained in the regular representation $\rho=\rho^\mu$ associated to $\mu$, so we have a surjective homomorphism $C^*_r(G)\to...