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A cut salad of cocycles

Authors 1, 2, 3

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicholas Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
  3. Département de Mathématiques, Sité Colbert, Université de Rouen, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France

Abstract

We study the centraliser of locally compact group extensions of ergodic probability preserving transformations. New methods establishing ergodicity of group extensions are introduced, and new examples of squashable and non-coalescent group extensions are constructed.

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Fundamenta Mathematicae
1998/157/2-3
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Pages:
99-119
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-07-23
Accepted
1998-03-03
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences