We study countable partitions for measurable maps on measure spaces such that, for every point $x$, the set of points with the same itinerary as that of $x$ is negligible. We prove in nonatomic probability spaces that every strong generator (Parry, W., Aperiodic transformations and generators, J. London Math. Soc. 43 (1968), 191–194) satisfies this property (but not conversely). In addition, measurable maps carrying partitions with this property are aperiodic and their corresponding spaces are nonatomic....

For infinite measure preserving transformations with a compact regeneration property we establish a central limit theorem for visits to good sets of finite measure by points from Poissonian ensembles. This extends classical results about (noninteracting) infinite particle systems driven by Markov chains to the realm of systems driven by weakly dependent processes generated by certain measure preserving transformations.

E. Hille [Hi1] gave an example of an operator in L¹[0,1] satisfying the mean ergodic theorem (MET) and such that supₙ||Tⁿ|| = ∞ (actually, $\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|\sim n^{1/4}$). This was the first example of a non-power bounded mean ergodic L¹ operator. In this note, the possible rates of growth (in n) of the norms of Tⁿ for such operators are studied. We show that, for every γ > 0, there are positive L¹ operators T satisfying the MET with $li{m}_{n\to \infty }\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|/n^{1-\gamma }=\infty .IntheclassofpositiveoperatorstheseexamplesarethebestpossibleinthesensethatforeverysuchoperatorTthereexistsa\gamma ₀>0suchthat$lim supn→ ∞ ||Tⁿ||/n1-γ₀ = 0$.$A class of numerical sequences αₙ, intimately related to the...

We show that a certain type of quasifinite, conservative, ergodic, measure preserving transformation always has a maximal zero entropy factor, generated by predictable sets. We also construct a conservative, ergodic, measure preserving transformation which is not quasifinite; and consider distribution asymptotics of information showing that e.g. for Boole's transformation, information is asymptotically mod-normal with normalization ∝ √n. Lastly, we show that certain ergodic, probability preserving...