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Recurrence, rigidity, and popular differences

Dynamical Systems 2019-03-27 v3

Abstract

We construct a set SS such that every translate of SS is a set of recurrence and a set of rigidity for a weak mixing measure preserving system. This construction generalizes or strengthens results of Katznelson, Saeki, Forrest, and Fayad and Kanigowski. The construction provides a density analogue of Julia Wolf's results on popular differences in finite abelian groups.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.03901,
  title  = {Recurrence, rigidity, and popular differences},
  author = {John T. Griesmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03901},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages, comments welcome. Revision 3 fixes some typos, changes terminology to use "translate" where "shift" was used in previous versions

R2 v1 2026-06-22T10:55:31.692Z