Real extensions of distal minimal flows and continuous topological ergodic decompositions

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDU001MaRDI QIDQ2874669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Greschonig

Publication date 8 August 2014

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1221

zbMATH Keywords

distal minimal flowprolongationRokhlin skew product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Notions of recurrence and recurrent behavior in topological dynamical systems (37B20)

Abstract: We prove a structure theorem for topologically recurrent real skew product extensions of distal minimal compact metric flows with a compactly generated Abelian acting group (e.g. $$-flows and $R^d$-flows). The main result states that every such extension apart from a coboundary can be represented by a perturbation of a so-called Rokhlin skew product. We obtain as a corollary that the topological ergodic decomposition of the skew product extension into prolongations is continuous and compact with respect to the Fell topology on the hyperspace. The right translation acts minimally on this decomposition, therefore providing a minimal compact metric analogue to the Mackey action. This topological Mackey action is a distal (possibly trivial) extension of a weakly mixing factor (possibly trivial), and it is distal if and only if perturbation of the Rokhlin skew product is defined by a topological coboundary.

Review text

Building on the notions of Rokhlin extensions and Rokhlin skew products, that had been studied in the measure theoretic setting [\textit{M. Lemańczyk} and \textit{E. Lesigne}, J. Anal. Math. 85, 43--86 (2001; Zbl 1038.37003); \textit{M. Lemańczyk} and \textit{F. Parreau}, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 23, No. 5, 1525--1550 (2003; Zbl 1043.37004)], the author introduces the notion of a ``perturbed Rokhlin skew product. He then uses it to study topologically recurrent real skew product extensions of distal minimal compact metric flows, with a compactly generated abelian acting group. The following main results are proven.NEWLINENEWLINEStructure Theorem: Apart from a coboundary, every such extension is a perturbation of a Rokhlin skew product.NEWLINENEWLINEDecomposition Theorem: The topological ergodic decomposition of every such extension into prolongations is continuous and compact in the hyperspace of non-empty closed subsets equipped with the Fell topology. NEWLINENEWLINETopological Mackey Action Theorem: The right translation of \(\mathbb{R}\) acts minimally on the set of the above prolongations. This flow is a distal (possibly trivial) extension of a weakly mixing compact metric flow, and it is distal if and only if the perturbation of the Rokhlin skew product is defined by a topological coboundary.NEWLINENEWLINEUniqueness of Representation Theorem: Apart from a coboundary the representation is unique up to isomorphy and time rescaling.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main tool used in the proofs of the above results is \textit{H. Furstenberg}'s structure theorem [Am. J. Math. 85, 477--515 (1963; Zbl 0199.27202)].

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