Measure Preserving Diffeomorphisms of the Torus are Unclassifiable

DOI10.4171/JEMS/1151MaRDI QIDQ6286574arXivFDO

Authors Matthew Foreman, Benjamin Weiss

Publication date 11 May 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: The isomorphism problem in ergodic theory was formulated by von Neumann in 1932 in his pioneering paper Zur Operatorenmethode in der klassischen Mechanik (Ann. of Math. (2), 33(3):587--642, 1932). The problem has been solved for some classes of transformations that have special properties, such as the collection of transformations with discrete spectrum or Bernoulli shifts. This paper shows that a general classification is impossible (even in concrete settings) by showing that the collection $E$ of pairs of ergodic, Lebesgue measure preserving diffeomorphisms $(S,T)$ of the 2-torus that are isomorphic is a complete analytic set in the $C^{i}nfty$- topology (and hence not Borel).

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