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An ergodic system is dominant exactly when it has positive entropy

Dynamical Systems 2021-12-08 v1

Abstract

An ergodic dynamical system X\mathbf{X} is called dominant if it is isomorphic to a generic extension of itself. It was shown in an earlier paper by Glasner, Thouvenot and Weiss that Bernoulli systems with finite entropy are dominant. In this work we show first that every ergodic system with positive entropy is dominant, and then that if X\mathbf{X} has zero entropy then it is not dominant.

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@article{arxiv.2112.03800,
  title  = {An ergodic system is dominant exactly when it has positive entropy},
  author = {Tim Austin and Eli Glasner and Jean-Paul Thouvenot and Benjamin Weiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03800},
  year   = {2021}
}
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