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We construct inner amenable and ICC groups having no ergodic, free, probability-measure-preserving and stable action. This solves a problem posed by Jones-Schmidt in 1987.
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Kida, Y. Inner amenable groups having no stable action. Geom Dedicata 173, 185–192 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-013-9936-0
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