Classification results for nonsingular Bernoulli crossed products

Abstract: We prove rigidity and classification results for type III factors given by nonsingular Bernoulli actions of the free groups and more general free product groups. This includes a large family of nonisomorphic Bernoulli crossed products of type III$_1$ that cannot be distinguished by Connes $\tau$-invariant. These are the first such classification results beyond the well studied probability measure preserving case.