Elasticity of free type III actions of free groups

We prove that measure-class-preserving non-amenable treeable equivalence relations of type III, meaning not preserving any equivalent [Formula: see text]-finite measure, are induced by free actions of non-abelian free groups of any given number of generators, including infinitely generated free groups, with the additional property that no ends of the induced Schreier graph are vanishing. This is done using a characterization of type III due to Hopf for transformations and Dang–Ngoc–Nghiem in general. This highlights the difference between the type III setting and the measure-preserving setting.