Rigidity of measurable structure for \(\mathbb Z^d\)-actions by automorphisms of a torus (Q1864195)

The authors consider certain classes of \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)-actions, \(d\geq 2\), by automorphisms of the torus. They show, that measurable conjugacy has to be affine; hence, measurable conjugacy implies algebraic conjugacy. Similarly, they show that any measurable factor is algebraic and that algebraic and affine centralizers provide invariants of measurable conjugacy. Using the algebraic machinery of dual modules and information about class numbers of algebraic number fields, they construct various examples of \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)-actions by Bernoulli automorphisms whose measurable orbit structure is rigid, including actions which are weakly isomorphic but not isomorphic. They show, that the structure of the centralizer for these actions may or may not serve as a distinguishing measure-theoretic invariant. In the last section of the paper, they produce several kinds of specific examples of actions by ergodic automorphisms of the tori with the same entropy function. These examples provide instances when general criteria developed before can be applied. They give concrete examples of: -- actions which are not weakly isomorphic, -- actions which are weakly isomorphic but not isomorphic such that one action is a maximal action by Bernoulli automorphisms and the other is not, -- weakly isomorphic, but not isomorphic, maximal actions.