Simple \(\mathbb Z_{2}\)-actions twisted by aperiodic automorphisms (Q5962254)

The purpose of this paper is to give an affirmative answer to the following question of Glasner: Is there a \(2\)-fold \(\mathbb{Z}^2\)-action \((T_g)_{g\in\mathbb{Z}^2}\) which is conjugate to \((T_{Ag})_{g\in\mathbb{Z}^2}\) for an aperiodic element \(A\) of \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\)? The authors construct a simple transformation whose centralizer is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}\rtimes_A\mathbb{Z}\), where \(A\) is an aperiodic automorphism of \(\mathbb{Z}^2\). As a corollary, they obtain an example of a \(\mathbb{Z}^2\)-action \((T_g)_{g\in\mathbb{Z}^2}\) which is conjugate to the action \((T_{Ag})_{g\in\mathbb{Z}^2}\) twisted by \(A\).