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Tail-fields of products of random variables and ergodic equivalence relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

KLAUS SCHMIDT
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Vienna, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna, Austria (e-mail:klaus.schmidt@univie.ac.at)

Abstract

We prove the following result. Let $G$ be a countable discrete group with finite conjugacy classes, and let $(X_n, n\in\mathbb Z)$ be a two-sided, strictly stationary sequence of $G$-valued random variables. Then $\mathscr T_\infty =\mathscr T_\infty ^*$, where $\mathscr T_\infty$ is the two-sided tail-sigma-field $\bigcap_{M\ge1}\sigma (X_m:|m|\ge M)$ of $(X_n)$ and $T_\infty ^*$ the tail-sigma-field $\bigcap_{M\ge0}\sigma (Y_{m,n}:m,n\ge M)$ of the random variables $(Y_{m,n}, m,n\ge0)$ defined as the products $Y_{m,n}=X_n\dots X_{-m}$. This statement generalises a number of results in the literature concerning tail triviality of two-sided random walks on certain discrete groups.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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