Contractive spaces and relatively contractive maps

DOI10.1090/CONM/678/13643MaRDI QIDQ2975232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Darren Creutz

Publication date 11 April 2017

Published in Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems, and the Continuing Influence of John C. Oxtoby (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01561

zbMATH Keywords

contractive mapcontractive spaceergodic theory of group actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) General groups of measure-preserving transformations (28D15) Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40)

Abstract: We present an exposition of contractive spaces and of relatively contractive maps. Contractive spaces are the natural opposite of measure-preserving actions and relatively contractive maps the natural opposite of relatively measure-preserving maps. These concepts play a central role in the work of the author and J.~Peterson on the rigidity of actions of semisimple groups and their lattices and have also appeared in recent work of various other authors. We present detailed definitions and explore the relationship of these phenomena with other aspects of the ergodic theory of group actions, proving along the way several new results, with an eye towards explaining how contractiveness is intimately connected with rigidity phenomena.

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