Counting generic measures for a subshift of linear growth

DOI10.4171/JEMS/838MaRDI QIDQ1725574zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Van Cyr, Bryna Kra

Publication date 14 February 2019

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02748

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismblock complexityinterval exchange transformationsubshift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Multidimensional shifts of finite type (37B51) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05)

Abstract: In 1984 Boshernitzan proved an upper bound on the number of ergodic measures for a minimal subshift of linear block growth and asked if it could be lowered without further assumptions on the shift. We answer this question, showing that Boshernitzan's bound is sharp. We further prove that the same bound holds for the, a priori, larger set of nonatomic generic measures, and that this bound remains valid even if one drops the assumption of minimality. Applying these results to interval exchange transformations, we give an upper bound on the number of nonatomic generic measures of a minimal IET, answering a question recently posed by Chaika and Masur.

Review text

The symbolic dynamics of interval exchange transformations has been extensively studied in the literature (see, e.g., [\textit{A. Y. Belov} and \textit{A. L. Chernyat'ev}, Russ. Math. Surv. 63, No. 1, 158--160 (2008; Zbl 1175.68307); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk. 63, No. 1, 159--160 (2008); \textit{S. Ferenczi} and \textit{L. Q. Zamboni}, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 40, No. 4, 705--714 (2008; Zbl 1147.37008)]). In [J. Anal. Math. 44, 77--96 (1985; Zbl 0602.28008)] \textit{M. Boshernitzan} determined an upper bound on the number of ergodic measures for a minimal subshift of linear block growth and posed the problem of lowering it without further assumptions on the shift. The present authors show that Boshernitzan's bound is sharp. They further prove that the same bound holds for the larger set of nonatomic generic measures and that this bound remains valid even if one drops the assumption of minimality. Applying these results to interval exchange transformations, they determine an upper bound on the number of nonatomic generic measures, thus answering a question recently posed by \textit{J. Chaika} and \textit{H. Masur} [J. Mod. Dyn. 9, 289--304 (2015; Zbl 1356.37059)].

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