Actions of discrete groups on the real line are considered. When the group of homeomorphisms is solvable several sufficient conditions are given which guarantee that the group is semiconjugate to a subgroup of the affine group of the line. In the process of obtaining these results sufficient conditions are also determined for the existence of invariant (quasi-invariant) measures for abelian (so...

Reversible cellular automata are seen as microscopic physical models, and their states of macroscopic equilibrium are described using invariant probability measures. Characterizing all the invariant measures of a cellular automaton could be challenging. Nevertheless, we establish a connection between the invariance of Gibbs measures (used in statistical mechanics to describe thermodynamic equil...