Event
Konrad Wrobel (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: Measure equivalence and wreath product groups
Abstract: Measure equivalence is an equivalence relation on the space of groups that was defined by Gromov in the 90's as an analytic analogue of quasi-isometry. Let F be a nonabelian free group. We show that if $L_1$ and $L_2$ are measure equivalent groups, then the wreath products $L_1\wr F$ and $L_2\wr F$ are measure equivalent with index.  We also make several observations about the way one-ended groups can live inside a wreath product group $B\wr L$. In particular, we conclude that if $\phi$ is any automorphism of $B\wr L$ and $L$ is one-ended, then $\phi(L)$ is conjugate to $L$. This is joint work with Robin Tucker-Drob.