Invariant measures for the continual Cartan subgroup (Q999863)

The goal of the paper is to introduce a family of \(\sigma\)-finite measures in the space of Schwartz distributions on the interval (or on the manifold) that is invariant with respect to a continual group of multiplicators and has a finite degree of homogeneity with respect to homotheties. The measure with degree of homogeneity equal to one is called the infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure. Therefore one parameter semigroup of \(\sigma\)-finite measures \({\mathcal L}^\theta\), \(\theta> 0\) on the space of Schwartz distributions which have an infinite-dimensional Abelian group of linear symmetries is defined. This group is a continual analog of the classical Cartan subgroup of diagonal positive matrices of the group \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})\). The uniqueness theorem which says that \({\mathcal L}^\theta\) is unique, ergodic, positive \(\sigma\)-finite measure on the cone of positive Schwartz distributions that is finite on compact subsets, satisfies certain invariance property, has a fixed degree of homogeneity is proved.