A model-theoretic approach to rigidity of strongly ergodic, distal actions

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2469zbMATH Open1490.37002arXiv1808.00341OpenAlexW3205111377WikidataQ114042133 ScholiaQ114042133MaRDI QIDQ5020484FDOQ5020484

Authors: Tomás Ibarlucía, Todor Tsankov 

Publication date: 6 January 2022

Published in: Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a model-theoretic framework for the study of distal factors of strongly ergodic, measure-preserving dynamical systems of countable groups. Our main result is that all such factors are contained in the (existential) algebraic closure of the empty set. This allows us to recover some rigidity results of Ioana and Tucker-Drob as well as prove some new ones: for example, that strongly ergodic, distal systems are coalescent and that every two such systems that are weakly equivalent are isomorphic. We also prove the existence of a universal distal, ergodic system that contains any other distal, ergodic system of the group as a factor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00341

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zbMATH Keywords

model theoryalgebraic closurecontinuous logicstrongly ergodicdistal actionsgeneralized discrete spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) General groups of measure-preserving transformations (28D15) Applications of model theory (03C98)

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