Factors of coalescent automorphisms
Diagonal metric subgroups of the metric centralizer of group extensions are investigated. Any diagonal compact subgroup Z of is determined by a compact subgroup Y of a given metric compact abelian group X, by a family , of group automorphisms and by a measurable function f:X → G (G a metric compact abelian group). The group Z consists of the triples , y ∈ Y, where , x ∈ X.
We prove that every topological dynamical system (X,T) has a faithful zero-dimensional principal extension, i.e. a zero-dimensional extension (Y,S) such that for every S-invariant measure ν on Y the conditional entropy h(ν | X) is zero, and, in addition, every invariant measure on X has exactly one preimage on Y. This is a strengthening of the authors' result in Acta Appl. Math. [to appear] (where the extension was principal, but not necessarily faithful).
We construct a map on the space of interval exchange transformations, which generalizes the classical map on the interval, related to continued fraction expansion. This map is based on Rauzy induction, but unlike its relative kown up to now, the map is ergodic with respect to some finite absolutely continuous measure on the space of interval exchange transformations. We present the prescription for calculation of this measure based on technique developed by W. Veech for Rauzy induction.We study...