Bounded cohomological induction for transverse measured groupoids

Abstract

We establish an induction isomorphism in the context of measurable bounded cohomology of discrete measured groupoid, which generalizes the Eckmann-Shapiro isomorphism in bounded cohomology of lattices due to Burger and Monod. In our wider setting, the role of lattices is taken by the class of transverse measured groupoids $(\mathcal{G}, \nu)$ associated with a cross-section $Y$ in a pmp dynamical system $(X, \mu)$ of a lcsc group $G$ such that the associated hitting time process of $Y$ is locally integrable. Typical examples are given by pattern groupoids of strong approximate lattices. Under the assumptions that $G$ is unimodular we show that the measurable bounded cohomology of $(\mathcal{G}, \nu)$ is isomorphic to the continuous bounded cohomology of $G$ with coefficients in $\text{L}^{\infty}(X, \mu)$. As a consequence, if $G$ is amenable, then $(\mathcal{G}, \nu)$ is boundedly acyclic, and in general the restriction map $\text{H}_{\text{cb}}^\bullet (G; \mathbb{R}) \to \text{H}_{\text{mb}}^\bullet ((\mathcal{G}, \nu);\underline{\mathbb{R}})$ is injective. Moreover, it follows from known results in continuous bounded cohomology that if $G$ is a semisimple higher rank Lie group of Hermitian (respectively complex classical) type, then the second (respectively third) measurable bounded cohomology of $(\mathcal{G}, \nu)$ is generated by the restriction of the bounded K\"ahler class (respectively bounded Borel class). These are the first explicit computations of non-trivial bounded cohomology groups of measured groupoids which are not isomorphic to an action groupoid.