Subalgebras, subgroups, and singularity

This paper concerns the non-commutative analog of the Normal Subgroup Theorem for certain groups. Inspired by Kalantar-Panagopoulos, we show that all $\Gamma$-invariant subalgebras of $L\Gamma$ and $C^*_r(\Gamma)$ are ($\Gamma$-) co-amenable. The groups we work with satisfy a singularity phenomenon described in Bader-Boutonnet-Houdayer-Peterson. The setup of singularity allows us to obtain a description of $\Gamma$-invariant intermediate von Neumann subalgebras $L^{\infty}(X,\xi)\subset\mathcal{M}\subset L^{\infty}(X,\xi)\rtimes\Gamma$ in terms of the normal subgroups of $\Gamma$.Comment: This is the final version. All the comments made by the referee have been implemented. The paper has been accepted to appear in the Bulletin of the London Math Society https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.1293