Isomorphisms of Poisson systems over locally compact groups

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Abstract: A Poisson system is a Poisson point process and a group action, together forming a measure-preserving dynamical system. Ornstein and Weiss proved Poisson systems over many amenable groups were isomorphic in their 1987 paper. We consider Poisson systems over non-discrete, non-compact, locally compact Polish groups, and we prove by construction all Poisson systems over such a group are finitarily isomorphic, producing examples of isomorphisms for non-amenable group actions. As a corollary, we prove Poisson systems and products of Poisson systems are finitarily isomorphic. For a Poisson system over a group belonging to a slightly more restrictive class than above, we further prove it splits into two Poisson systems whose intensities sum to the intensity of the original, generalizing the same result for Poisson systems over Euclidean space proved by Holroyd, Lyons, and Soo.


A random variable \(Z\) taking values in \(\{0,1,2\dots\}\) with \(\mathbb{P}(Z=m)={\mathrm{e}}^{-\gamma}\gamma^m/m!\) is called Poisson with mean \(\gamma\). For a group \(G\) with \(\sigma\)-finite Haar measure \(\lambda\) and a fixed parameter \(\alpha>0\) a Poisson point process on \(G\) with intensity \(\alpha\) is a random variable \(X\) taking values on the space \(\mathbb{M}\) of Borel simple point measures on \(G\) with the property that for every Borel subset \(A\) of \(G\) with \(\lambda(A)<\infty\) the number of points of \(X\) in \(A\) is a Poisson random variable with mean \(\alpha\lambda(A)\). In a monumental work extending much of Ornstein theory to the amenable group setting, \textit{D. S. Ornstein} and \textit{B. Weiss} [J. Anal. Math. 48, 1--141 (1987; Zbl 0637.28015)] showed that Poisson systems over amenable groups satisfying some technical conditions giving a `good entropy theory' are isomorphic. Here Poisson systems on non-discrete, non-compact, locally compact Polish groups are shown to be finitarily isomorphic. Under more restrictive assumptions, it is shown that a Poisson system splits into two Poisson systems whose intensities sum fo the intensity of the original system, generalizing an earlier result in [\textit{A. E. Holroyd} et al., Ann. Probab. 39, No. 5, 1938--1982 (2011; Zbl 1277.60087)].











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