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Weak Mixing Manifold Homeomorphisms Preserving an Infinite Measure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Steve Alpern  and
Vidhu Prasad
Steve Alpern
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, London, England
Vidhu Prasad
Affiliation:
York University, North York, Ontario
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Let denote the group of all homeomorphisms of a σ-compact manifold which preserve a σ-finite, nonatomic, locally positive and locally finite measure μ. In two recent papers [4, 5] the possible ergodicity of a homeomorphism h in was shown to be related to the homeomorphism h* induced by h on the ends of M. An end of a manifold is, roughly speaking, a distinct way of going to infinity. Those papers demonstrated in particular that always contains an ergodic homeomorphism, paralleling the similar result of Oxtoby and Ulam [11] for compact manifolds with finite measures. Unfortunately the techniques used in [4] and [5] rely on the fact that a skyscraper construction with an ergodic base transformation is ergodic, a result which cannot be extended to finer properties than ergodicity.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1987 , pp. 1475 - 1488
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

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