On isomorphism problem for von Neumann flows with one discontinuity

DOI10.1007/S11856-018-1701-5MaRDI QIDQ1659543zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adam Kanigowski, Anton V. Solomko

Publication date 22 August 2018

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02712

zbMATH Keywords

isomorphismjumproof functionrotationvon Neumann flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

Abstract: A von Neumann flow is a special flow over an irrational rotation of the circle and under a piecewise $C^1$ roof function with a non-zero sum of jumps. We prove that the absolute value of the slope is a (measure theoretic) invariant in the class of von Neumann special flows with one discontinuity, i.e. two ergodic von Neumann flows with one discontinuity are not isomorphic if the slopes of the roof functions have different absolute values, regardless of the irrational rotation in the base.

Review text

The theory of isomorphisms of measure-preserving systems is a classical problem in ergodic theory. A von Neumann flow is a simplified model of Hamiltonian flows on the torus with critical points, and is weakly mixing, never mixing, and have purely singular spectrum. This flow is constructed by a suspension flow over an irrational rotation of the circle and under a piecewise \(C^1\) roof function with a non-zero sum of jumps. The irrational rotation has zero entropy, the classical entropy theory could not be applied here. The main idea is as follows. For von Neumann flows with one discontinuity, the slow divergence by hitting the roof and the fast divergence by hitting the discontinuity are the reasons for the divergence of the orbits. The idea is using contradiction, that is, suppose the two probability-preserving flows are conjugated by an invertible measure-preserving transformation (this is the definition of isomorphism) and take two close points for one flow such that they hit the discontinuity before they have time to split by hitting the roof. The conjugacy transformation will yield a contradiction. The continued fraction expansion of the irrational number (classified as bounded type and unbounded type), Egorov's theorem, and Luzin's theorem are used in the proof.

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