Ergodic theory, entropy, and coding problems of information theory
Ergodic theory of interval exchange maps.
A unified introduction to the dynamics of interval exchange maps and related topics, such as the geometry of translation surfaces, renormalization operators, and Teichmüller flows, starting from the basic definitions and culminating with the proof that almost every interval exchange map is uniquely ergodic. Great emphasis is put on examples and geometric interpretations of the main ideas.
Ergodicity and extremality of AMS sources and channels.
Ergodicity for a stochastic geodesic equation in the tangent bundle of the 2D sphere
We study ergodic properties of stochastic geometric wave equations on a particular model with the target being the 2D sphere while considering only solutions which are independent of the space variable. This simplification leads to a degenerate stochastic equation in the tangent bundle of the 2D sphere. Studying this equation, we prove existence and non-uniqueness of invariant probability measures for the original problem and obtain also results on attractivity towards an invariant measure. We also...
Ergodicity of ℤ² extensions of irrational rotations
Let = [0,1) be the additive group of real numbers modulo 1, α ∈ be an irrational number and t ∈ . We study ergodicity of skew product extensions T : × ℤ² → × ℤ², .
Ergodicity of stochastically forced large scale geophysical flows.
Explicit error bounds for Markov chain Monte Carlo [Book]
Exponential mixing for the Teichmüller flow
We study the dynamics of the Teichmüller flow in the moduli space of abelian differentials (and more generally, its restriction to any connected component of a stratum). We show that the (Masur-Veech) absolutely continuous invariant probability measure is exponentially mixing for the class of Hölder observables. A geometric consequence is that the action in the moduli space has a spectral gap.
Finite rank transformation and weak closure theorem
Finiteness of Ergodic Unitarily Invariant Measures on Spaces of Infinite Matrices
The main result of this note, Theorem 1.3, is the following: a Borel measure on the space of infinite Hermitian matrices, that is invariant and ergodic under the action of the infinite unitary group and that admits well-defined projections onto the quotient space of “corners" of finite size, must be finite. A similar result, Theorem 1.1, is also established for unitarily invariant measures on the space of all infinite complex matrices. These results imply that the infinite Hua-Pickrell measures...
Generators for Amenable Group Actions.
Generic points in the cartesian powers of the Morse dynamical system
The symbolic dynamical system associated with the Morse sequence is strictly ergodic. We describe some topological and metrical properties of the Cartesian powers of this system, and some of its other self-joinings. Among other things, we show that non generic points appear in the fourth power of the system, but not in lower powers. We exhibit various examples and counterexamples related to the property of weak disjointness of measure preserving dynamical systems.
Genericity of nonsingular transformations with infinite ergodic index
It is shown that in the group of invertible measurable nonsingular transformations on a Lebesgue probability space, endowed with the coarse topology, the transformations with infinite ergodic index are generic; they actually form a dense set. (A transformation has infinite ergodic index if all its finite Cartesian powers are ergodic.) This answers a question asked by C. Silva. A similar result was proved by U. Sachdeva in 1971, for the group of transformations preserving an infinite measure. Exploring...
Geometric and ergodic properties of the stable foliation
Gibbs-Markov-Young structures*, **, ***
We discuss the geometric structures defined by Young in [9, 10], which are used to prove the existence of an ergodic absolutely continuous invariant probability measure and to study the decay of correlations in expanding or hyperbolic systems on large parts.
Hard ball systems are completely hyperbolic.
Initial powers of Sturmian sequences
Invariant measures for piecewise convex transformations of an interval
We investigate the existence and ergodic properties of absolutely continuous invariant measures for a class of piecewise monotone and convex self-maps of the unit interval. Our assumption entails a type of average convexity which strictly generalizes the case of individual branches being convex, as investigated by Lasota and Yorke (1982). Along with existence, we identify tractable conditions for the invariant measure to be unique and such that the system has exponential decay of correlations on...
IP-Dirichlet measures and IP-rigid dynamical systems: an approach via generalized Riesz products
If is a strictly increasing sequence of integers, a continuous probability measure σ on the unit circle is said to be IP-Dirichlet with respect to if as F runs over all non-empty finite subsets F of ℕ and the minimum of F tends to infinity. IP-Dirichlet measures and their connections with IP-rigid dynamical systems have recently been investigated by Aaronson, Hosseini and Lemańczyk. We simplify and generalize some of their results, using an approach involving generalized Riesz products.
Isometric extensions, 2-cocycles and ergodicity of skew products
We establish existence and uniqueness of a canonical form for isometric extensions of an ergodic non-singular transformation T. This is applied to describe the structure of commutors of the isometric extensions. Moreover, for a compact group G, we construct a G-valued T-cocycle α which generates the ergodic skew product extension and admits a prescribed subgroup in the centralizer of .