Amenable group actions on $L_p$ lattices

Abstract

A result by Ornstein and Weiss states that a free and measure-preserving action of an amenable group on a probability space yields a decomposition of the space in disjoint images, up to a small error, analogous to the one given by the Rokhlin lemma in the case of a single transformation. We generalise this result to non-singular actions, and use it to prove that the theory of an action by automorphisms of an amenable group on a Banach $L_p$ lattice admits a model companion, which is stable and has quantifier elimination.