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 $li{m}_{n\to \infty }fₙ=f$ in measure for some f ∈ M(μ;X), then also $li{m}_{n\to \infty }Tfₙ=Tf$ 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 study spectral properties of Anzai skew products $T_{\phi }:²\to ²$ defined by $T_{\phi }(z,\omega )=(e^{2\pi i\alpha }z,\phi \left(z\right)\omega )$, where α is irrational and φ: → is a measurable cocycle. Precisely, we deal with the case where φ is piecewise absolutely continuous such that the sum of all jumps of φ equals zero. It is shown that the simple continuous singular spectrum of $T_{\phi }$ on the orthocomplement of the space of functions depending only on the first variable is a “typical” property in the above-mentioned class of cocycles, if α admits a sufficiently fast approximation....

We introduce an invariant of cohomology in Bernoulli shifts, which is used to answer a question about cohomology of Hölder functions with finitary functions whose coding time is integrable. When restricted to the class of Hölder functions, this invariant even provides a criterion of cohomology.

Two invertible dynamical systems (X,,μ,T) and (Y,,ν,S), where X and Y are Polish spaces and Borel probability spaces and T, S are measure preserving homeomorphisms of X and Y, are said to be finitarily orbit equivalent if there exists an invertible measure preserving mapping ϕ from a subset X₀ of X of measure one onto a subset Y₀ of Y of full measure such that (1) ${\varphi |}_{X₀}$ is continuous in the relative topology on X₀ and ${\varphi }^{-1}{|}_{Y₀}$ is continuous in the relative topology on Y₀, (2) $\varphi \left(Or{b}_T\left(x\right)\right)=Or{b}_S\left(\varphi \left(x\right)\right)$ for μ-a.e. x ∈ X. (X,,μ,T) and...

For a non-compact hyperbolic surface M of finite area, we study a certain Poincaré section for the geodesic flow. The canonical, non-invertible factor of the first return map to this section is shown to be pointwise dual ergodic with return sequence (aₙ) given by aₙ = π/(4(Area(M) + 2π)) · n/(log n). We use this result to deduce that the section map itself is rationally ergodic, and that the geodesic flow associated to M is ergodic with respect to the Liouville measure. ...

We present an explicit formula for the Ruelle rotation of a nonsingular Killing vector field of a closed, oriented, Riemannian 3-manifold, with respect to Riemannian volume.

En théorie des groupes, le théorème de Kurosh est un résultat de structure concernant les sous-groupes d’un produit libre de groupes. Le théorème principal de cet article est un résultat analogue dans le cadre des relations d’équivalence boréliennes à classes dénombrables, que nous démontrons en développant une théorie de Bass-Serre dans ce cadre particulier.

Utilizing the cut-and-stack techniques we construct explicitly a weakly mixing rigid rank-one transformation T which is conjugate to T². Moreover, it is proved that for each odd q, there is such a T commuting with a transformation of order q. For any n, we show the existence of a weakly mixing T conjugate to T² and whose rank is finite and greater than n.