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 $n$-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...

We prove density modulo $1$ of the sets of the form$$\{{\mu }^m{\lambda }^n\xi +r_m:n,m\in \mathbb{N}\},$$where $\lambda ,\mu \in ℝ$ is a pair of rationally independent algebraic integers of degree $d\ge 2,$ satisfying some additional assumptions, $\xi \ne 0,$ and $r_m$ is any sequence of real numbers.

For every $k\in \mathbb{N}$, we produce a set of integers which is $k$-recurrent but not $(k+1)$-recurrent. This extends a result of Furstenberg who produced a $1$-recurrent set which is not $2$-recurrent. We discuss a similar result for convergence of multiple ergodic averages. We also point out a combinatorial consequence related to Szemerédi’s theorem.

We study differentiability of topological conjugacies between expanding piecewise $C^{1+ϵ}$ interval maps. If these conjugacies are not C¹, then their derivative vanishes Lebesgue almost everywhere. We show that in this case the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points for which the derivative of the conjugacy does not exist lies strictly between zero and one. Moreover, by employing the thermodynamic formalism, we show that this Hausdorff dimension can be determined explicitly in terms of the Lyapunov spectrum....

We study natural measures on sets of $\beta$-expansions and on slices through self similar sets. In the setting of $\beta$-expansions, these allow us to better understand the measure of maximal entropy for the random $\beta$-transformation and to reinterpret a result of Lindenstrauss, Peres and Schlag in terms of equidistribution. Each of these applications is relevant to the study of Bernoulli convolutions. In the fractal setting this allows us to understand how to disintegrate Hausdorff measure by slicing, leading...

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.

Via the (C,F)-construction we produce a 2-fold simple mixing transformation which has uncountably many non-trivial proper factors and all of them are prime.

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 $li{m}_{n\to \infty }fₙ=f$ 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 1) the slopes of central branches of iterates of S-unimodal maps, comparing them to the derivatives on the critical trajectory, 2) the hyperbolic structure of Collet-Eckmann maps estimating the exponents, and under a summability condition 3) the images of the density one under the iterates of the Perron-Frobenius operator, 4) the density of the absolutely continuous invariant measure.

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....