Suspensions of Bernoulli shifts

Alvaro Lozano-Rojo, Olga Lukina

Published 2012-04-24, updated 2013-07-21Version 2

We show that for a given finitely generated group, its Bernoulli shift space can be equivariantly embedded as a subset of a space of pointed trees with Gromov-Hausdorff metric and natural partial action of a free group. Since the latter can be realised as a transverse space of a foliated space with leaves Riemannian manifolds, this embedding allows us to obtain a suspension of such Bernoulli shift. By a similar argument we show that the space of pointed trees is universal for compactly generated expansive pseudogroups of transformations.