Models for measure preserving transformations (Q972536)

This is an attractive survey of some recent work of the author, Dan Rudolph and Benjamin Weiss on classification problems in ergodic theory from the point of view of set theory. A particular focus is how statements about the complexity or the genericity of a dynamical property (for example, mixing, weak-mixing, zero entropy, and so on) or a dynamically defined equivalence relation (measurable isomorphism, weak isomorphism, Kakutani equivalence, and so on) may be viewed in the space of all measure-preserving transformations under the lens provided by several different topologies. This paper discusses the relationship between these properties with respect to several different candidate topologies. The two framing issues are to discover whether all suitable defined models for measure-preserving transformations have the same generic dynamical properties, and to ask if all the models are Borel equivalent in that they have the same Borel dynamical properties.