Smooth Extensions of Bernoulli Shifts

Weak isomorphisms between Bernoulli shifts

In this note, we prove that if G is a countable group that contains a nonabelian free subgroup then every pair of nontrivial Bernoulli shifts over G are weakly isomorphic.

Brooks’ theorem for Bernoulli shifts

If Γ is an infinite group with finite symmetric generating set S, we consider the graph G(Γ, S) on [0, 1]Γ by relating two distinct points if an element of s sends one to the other via the shift action. We show that, aside from the cases Γ = Z and Γ = (Z/2Z) ∗ (Z/2Z), G(Γ, S) satisfies a measure-theoretic version of Brooks’ theorem: there is a G(Γ, S)-invariant conull Borel set B ⊆ [0, 1]Γ and ...

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Smooth Shifts

Let M be a smooth manifold and Φ be a smooth flow on M . We study the maps M → M generated by smooth shifts along trajectories of Φ, i.e the maps of a form h(x) = Φ(x, σ(x)) where σ is some smooth function on M . We will classify smooth shifts which induce diffeomorphisms ofM and prove contractibility of the set of such diffeomorphisms for large class of flows. These results will be applied to ...

Z Group Shifts and Bernoulli Factors

In this paper, a group shift is an expansive action of Zd on a compact metrizable zero dimensional group by continuous automorphisms. All group shifts factor topologically onto equal-entropy Bernoulli shifts; abelian group shifts factor by continuous group homomorphisms onto canonical equalentropy Bernoulli group shifts; and completely positive entropy abelian group shifts are weakly algebraica...