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Time change for unipotent flows and rigidity

Dynamical Systems 2023-05-19 v2

Abstract

We prove a dichotomy regarding the behavior of one-parameter unipotent flows on quotients of semisimple lie groups under time change. We show that if ut(1)u^{(1)}_t acting on G1/Γ1G_{1}/\Gamma_1 is such a flow it satisfies exactly one of the following: (1) The flow is loosely Kronecker, and hence isomorphic after an appropriate time change to any other loosely Kronecker system. (2) The flow exhibits the following rigid behavior: if the one-parameter unipotent flow ut(1)u^{(1)} _ t on G1/Γ1G_1/\Gamma_1 is isomorphic after time change to another such flow ut(2)u^{(2)} _ t on G2/Γ2G_2/\Gamma _ 2, then G1/Γ1G_1/\Gamma_1 is isomorphic to G2/Γ2G_2/ \Gamma_2 with the isomorphism taking ut(1)u^{(1)} _ t to ut(2)u^{(2)} _ t and moreover the time change is cohomologous to a trivial one. The full details will appear in [LW23].

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@article{arxiv.2301.02742,
  title  = {Time change for unipotent flows and rigidity},
  author = {Elon Lindenstrauss and Daren Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02742},
  year   = {2023}
}
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