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Characters of inductive limits of finite alternating groups

Part of: Locally compact groups and their algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2018

SIMON THOMAS
SIMON THOMAS*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA email simon.rhys.thomas@gmail.com
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Abstract

If $G\ncong \operatorname{Alt}(\mathbb{N})$ is an inductive limit of finite alternating groups, then the indecomposable characters of $G$ are precisely the associated characters of the ergodic invariant random subgroups of $G$.

Keywords

alternating groupscharactersgroup actions

MSC classification

Primary: 22D40: Ergodic theory on groups
Secondary: 22D10: Unitary representations of locally compact groups
Type
Original Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , April 2020 , pp. 1068 - 1082
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press, 2018

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