Nonsingular dynamical systems, Bratteli diagrams and Markov odometers (Q1425643)

Dye's theorem on orbit equivalence has been generalized by many authors, and here the authors generalize versions due to Vershik, Livshitz and Lodkin and others (see \textit{A. A. Lodkin} and \textit{A. M. Vershik }[in: Operator algebras and their connections with topology and ergodic theory, Proc. Conf., Busteni/Rom, 1983, Lect. Notes Math. 1132, 331--346 (1985; Zbl 0584.28008)] and \textit{A. M. Vershik} and \textit{A. N. Livshitz} [in: Representation theory and dynamical systems, Adv. Sov. Math. 9, 185--204 (1992; Zbl 0770.28013)]). Here it is shown that every ergodic nonsingular dynamical system on a standard measure space is orbit equivalent to a Markov odometer, which may be taken to be uniquely ergodic. Markov odometers are defined on Bratteli-Vershik diagrams.