Kropholler's conjecture on almost invariant sets and tree actions
Let be a group and let be a subgroup. A subset is -finite if it is contained in finitely many right cosets of . Two subsets are -almost equal if their symmetric difference is -finite, and a set is -almost invariant if is -almost equal to for every . Such a set is proper if neither nor is -finite.
Kropholler's conjecture. If there is a proper -almost invariant set such that , then has a non-trivial action on a tree in which fixes a vertex and every edge incident with has an -finite stabiliser.
This is a relative form of Stallings' Ends Theorem concerning the action of a group on a tree. The source presents the statement as the Kropholler Conjecture and describes the paper as attempting a complete proof, but the supplied status is unknown; the resolution should therefore be checked.
References
Primary source
M. J. Dunwoody, “The Kropholler Conjecture”, arXiv:2205.04375 (2023).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1601.06965, arXiv:1409.6872.
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