Spectral multiplicity in ergodic theory (Q5964970)

The article is a translation from Russian of the paper of the author (1936--2014) written in 2003. It contains a survey of results devoted to Rokhlin's problem on spectral multiplicities. The author reports some results due to \textit{O. N. Ageev} [J. Dyn. Control Syst. 5, No. 1, 149--152 (1999; Zbl 0943.37005)] and \textit{V. V. Ryzhikov} [J. Dyn. Control Syst. 5, No. 1, 145--148 (1999; Zbl 0954.37007)]. The author describes the construction of a transformation~\(T\) (using a cutting and stacking procedure) for which \({T\times T}\) has 2 as spectral multiplicity.