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A pair of non-homeomorphic product measures on the Cantor set

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-07-06 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

For r in [0,1] let \mu_r be the Bernoulli measure on the Cantor set given as the infinite power of the measure on the two-point set with weights r and 1-r. For r and s in [0,1] it is known that the measure \mu_r is continuously reducible to \mu_s (that is, there is a continuous map sending \mu_r to \mu_s) if and only if s can be written as a certain kind of polynomial in r; in this case s is said to be binomially reducible to r. In this paper we answer in the negative the following question posed by Mauldin: Is it true that the product measures \mu_r and \mu_s are homeomorphic if and only if each is a continuous image of the other, or, equivalently, each of the numbers r and s is binomially reducible to the other?

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@article{arxiv.math/0608553,
  title  = {A pair of non-homeomorphic product measures on the Cantor set},
  author = {Tim D. Austin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0608553},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, to appear in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society