Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4658038 | Topology and its Applications | 2016 | 26 Pages |
We associate to every action of a Polish group on a standard probability space a Polish group that we call the orbit full group. For discrete groups, we recover the well-known full groups of pmp equivalence relations equipped with the uniform topology. However, there are many new examples, such as orbit full groups associated to measure-preserving actions of locally compact groups. We also show that such full groups are complete invariants of orbit equivalence.We give various characterizations of the existence of a dense conjugacy class for orbit full groups, and we show that the ergodic ones actually have a unique Polish group topology. Furthermore, we characterize ergodic full groups of countable pmp equivalence relations as those admitting non-trivial continuous character representations.