Schmidt's conjecture on normality for commuting matrices.
We present a theory of self-joinings for semisimple maps and their group extensions which is a unification of the following three cases studied so far: (iii) Gaussian-Kronecker automorphisms: [Th], [Ju-Th]. (ii) MSJ and simple automorphisms: [Ru], [Ve], [Ju-Ru]. (iii) Group extension of discrete spectrum automorphisms: [Le-Me], [Le], [Me].
In this paper we explore topological factors in between the Kronecker factor and the maximal equicontinuous factor of a system. For this purpose we introduce the concept of sequence entropy -tuple for a measure and we show that the set of sequence entropy tuples for a measure is contained in the set of topological sequence entropy tuples [H- Y]. The reciprocal is not true. In addition, following topological ideas in [BHM], we introduce a weak notion and a strong notion of complexity pair for a...
A Borel subset of the unit square whose vertical and horizontal sections are two-point sets admits a natural group action. We exploit this to discuss some questions about Borel subsets of the unit square on which every function is a sum of functions of the coordinates. Connection with probability measures with prescribed marginals and some function algebra questions is discussed.
We consider some descriptive properties of supports of shift invariant measures on under the assumption that the closed linear span (in ) of the co-ordinate functions on is all of .
We prove the theorem promised in the title. Gaussians can be distinguished from simple maps by their property of divisibility. Roughly speaking, a system is divisible if it has a rich supply of direct product splittings. Gaussians are divisible and weakly mixing simple maps have no splittings at all so they cannot be isomorphic. The proof that they are disjoint consists of an elaboration of this idea, which involves, among other things, the notion of virtual divisibility, which is, more or less,...
For homographic extensions of the one-sided Bernoulli shift we construct σ-finite invariant and ergodic product measures. We apply the above to the description of invariant product probability measures for smooth extensions of one-sided Bernoulli shifts.
Let X be a reflexive Banach space and (Ω,,μ) be a probability measure space. Let T: M(μ;X) → M(μ;X) be a linear operator, where M(μ;X) is the space of all X-valued strongly measurable functions on (Ω,,μ). We assume that T is continuous in the sense that if (fₙ) is a sequence in M(μ;X) and in measure for some f ∈ M(μ;X), then also in measure. Then we consider the functional equation f = (T-I)h, where f ∈ M(μ;X) is given. We obtain several conditions for the existence of h ∈ M(μ;X) satisfying...
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a Toeplitz flow to be strictly ergodic. Next we show that the regularity of a Toeplitz flow is not a topological invariant and define the "eventual regularity" as a sequence; its behavior at infinity is topologically invariant. A relation between regularity and topological entropy is given. Finally, we construct strictly ergodic Toeplitz flows with "good" cyclic approximation and non-discrete spectrum.