On compact group extension of Bernoulli shifts (Q4487283)

Let \(T: [0,1)\to [0,1)\) be defined by \(T(x)= \{Lx\}\), where \(L\) is an integer and \(\{t\}\) is the fractional part of \(t\). A sequence \(d_n\in \{0,1,\dots, M-1\}\) is defined by \[ d_n(x)= \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} 1_E(T^k x)\pmod M. \] This paper is concerned with the uniform distribution of the sequence \(d_n\) and also the same question for more general transformations, including the \((p_1,\dots, p_l)\)-transformation \(T\) (measure theoretically isomorphic to the one sided \((p_1,\dots, p_l)\)-Bernoulli shift, where \(\sum_{i=1}^L p_i= 1\), \(p_i> 0)\). Such problems were studied by \textit{W. A. Veech} (for irrational rotations) [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 140, 1-33 (1969; Zbl 0201.05601)], by \textit{Y. Ahn} and \textit{G. H. Choe} for the \((1/L,\dots, 1/L)\) transformation, when \(M=2\) [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 128, No. 2, 503-510 (2000; Zbl 0933.28006)] and by \textit{Choe, Hamachi} and \textit{Nakada} (preprint), in some other cases. It is shown that for all such Bernoulli shifts, the sequence \(d_n\) is uniformly distributed. The method is to show the ergodicity of certain skew products defined by \(T\) and a step cocycle \(\varphi\), by investigating the solvability of equations of the form \(\rho(\varphi(x)) g(Tx)= g(x)\), where \(\rho\) is an irreducible representation of a compact group \(G\).