Minimality of interval exchange transformations with restrictions

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Abstract: It is known since 40 years old paper by M. Keane that minimality is a generic (i.e. holding with probability one) property of an irreducible interval exchange transformation. If one puts some integral linear restrictions on the parameters of the interval exchange transformation, then minimality may become an "exotic" property. We conjecture in this paper that this occurs if and only if the linear restrictions contain a Lagrangian subspace of the first homology of the suspension surface. We partially prove it in the "only if" direction and provide a series of examples to support the converse one. We show that the unique ergodicity remains a generic property if the restrictions on the parameters do not contain a Lagrangian subspace (this result is due to Barak Weiss).


\textit{M. Keane} [Math. Z. 141, 25--31 (1975; Zbl 0278.28010)] showed that minimality is generic for irreducible interval exchange transformations (IETs). However, there are families of irreducible non-generic IETs where all or almost all of the IETs are not minimal. The paper introduces poor and rich restriction spaces and the notion of stability for minimal IETs with restrictions. The authors prove that minimal uniquely ergodic IETs with poor restrictions are always stably minimal. They also conjecture that minimal IETs with rich restrictions are never stably minimal and that minimality occurs with probability 0 with rich restrictions.



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