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An amenable equivalence relation is generated by a single transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

A. Connes
Affiliation:
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
J. Feldman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA
B. Weiss
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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We prove that for any amenable non-singular countable equivalence relation RX×X, there exists a non-singular transformation T of X such that, up to a null set:

It follows that any two Cartan subalgebras of a hyperfinite factor are conjugate by an automorphism.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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