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Title

Infinite ergodic index d -actions in infinite measure

Authors 1, 2, 3, 4, 3,

Affiliations

  1. Lexecon Inc., One Mifflin Place, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
  2. 480 Lincoln Drive, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
  3. Department of Mathematics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, U.S.A.
  4. 1750 41st Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, U.S.A.
  5. Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Malott Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.

Abstract

We construct infinite measure preserving and nonsingular rank one d-actions. The first example is ergodic infinite measure preserving but with nonergodic, infinite conservative index, basis transformations; in this case we exhibit sets of increasing finite and infinite measure which are properly exhaustive and weakly wandering. The next examples are staircase rank one infinite measure preserving d-actions; for these we show that the individual basis transformations have conservative ergodic Cartesian products of all orders, hence infinite ergodic index. We generalize this example to obtain a stronger condition called power weakly mixing. The last examples are nonsingular d-actions for each Krieger ratio set type with individual basis transformations with similar properties.

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Pages:
167-190
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-03-15
Published
1999
Exact and natural sciences