New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 21 (2015) 615-636

  

Rachel L. Bayless and Kelly B. Yancey

Weakly mixing and rigid rank-one transformations preserving an infinite measure

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Published: July 24, 2015
Keywords: Rigid, spectral weak mixing, double ergodicity, ergodic Cartesian square, infinite measure-preserving, rational ergodicity
Subject: 37A40, 37A25

Abstract
In this paper we study the compatibility of rigidity with various notions of weak mixing in infinite ergodic theory. We prove that there exists an infinite measure-preserving transformation that is spectrally weakly mixing and rigid, but not doubly ergodic. We also construct an example to show that rigidity is compatible with rational ergodicity. At the end of the paper we explore the structure of rigidity sequences for infinite measure-preserving transformations that have ergodic Cartesian square, as well as the structure of rigidity sequences for infinite measure-preserving transformations that are rationally ergodic. All of our constructions are via the method of cutting and stacking.

Author information

Rachel L. Bayless:
Department of Mathematics, Agnes Scott College, 141 E. College Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
rbayless@agnesscott.edu

Kelly B. Yancey:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4015
kyancey@umd.edu