Amenable actions and applications

  • Narutaka Ozawa

    Kyoto University, Japan
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Abstract

We will give a brief account of (topological) amenable actions and exactness for countable discrete groups. The class of exact groups contains most of the familiar groups and yet is manageable enough to provide interesting applications in geometric topology, von Neumann algebras and ergodic theory.