Measure preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus are unclassifiable (Q2135437)
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Measure preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus are unclassifiable (English)
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6 May 2022
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Summary: In 1932 von Neumann proposed classifying the statistical behavior of differentiable systems. In modern language this is interpreted as classifying diffeomorphisms of compact manifolds up to measure isomorphism. This paper proves that this is impossible in a rigorous sense.
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classification of ergodic transformations
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odometers
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circular systems
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distal transformations
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Anosov-Katok method
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