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A topological lens for a measure-preserving system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2010

E. GLASNER ,
M. LEMAŃCZYK  and
B. WEISS
E. GLASNER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (email: glasner@math.tau.ac.il)
M. LEMAŃCZYK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland (email: mlem@mat.uni.torun.pl)
B. WEISS
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (email: weiss@math.huji.ac.il)
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Abstract

We introduce a functor which associates to every measure-preserving system (X,ℬ,μ,T) a topological system defined on the space of twofold couplings of μ, called the topological lens of T. We show that often the topological lens ‘magnifies’ the basic measure dynamical properties of T in terms of the corresponding topological properties of . Some of our main results are as follows: (i) T is weakly mixing if and only if is topologically transitive (if and only if it is topologically weakly mixing); (ii) T has zero entropy if and only if has zero topological entropy, and T has positive entropy if and only if has infinite topological entropy; (iii) for T a K-system, the topological lens is a P-system (i.e. it is topologically transitive and the set of periodic points is dense; such systems are also called chaotic in the sense of Devaney).

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 49 - 75
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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