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Restricted orbit equivalence forergodic ${\Bbb Z}^{d}$ actions I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2001

JANET WHALEN KAMMEYER
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, United States Naval Academy, 572 Holloway Road, Annapolis MD 20142-5002, USA (e-mail: jwk@nadn.navy.mil)
DANIEL J. RUDOLPH
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, USA (e-mail: djr@math.umd.edu)

Abstract

In [R1] a notion of restricted orbit equivalence for ergodic transformations was developed. Here we modify that structure in order to generalize it to actions of higher-dimensional groups, in particular ${\Bbb Z}^d$-actions. The concept of a ‘size’ is developed first from an axiomatized notion of the size of a permutation of a finite block in ${\Bbb Z}^d$. This is extended to orbit equivalences which are cohomologous to the identity and, via the natural completion, to a notion of restricted orbit equivalence. This is shown to be an equivalence relation. Associated to each size is an entropy which is an equivalence invariant. As in the one-dimensional case this entropy is either the classical entropy or is zero. Several examples are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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