Faithful invariant random subgroups in acylindrically hyperbolic groups

Abstract: Building on work from Sun and Kechris-Quorning, we prove that every acylindrically hyperbolic group $G$ admits a weakly mixing probability measure preserving action $G \curvearrowright (X,\mathcal{B},\mu)$ which is faithful but not essentially free. In other words, $G$ admits a weakly mixing nontrivial faithful IRS. We also prove that every non-elementary hyperbolic group admits a characteristic random subgroup with the same properties.