On measure theoretical analogues of the Takesaki structure theorem for type III factors
The orbit equivalence of type ergodic equivalence relations is considered. We show that it is equivalent to the outer conjugacy problem for the natural trace-scaling action of a countable dense ℝ-subgroup by automorphisms of the Radon-Nikodym skew product extensions of these relations. A similar result holds for the weak equivalence of arbitrary type cocycles with values in Abelian groups.