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A classification of orbits admitting a unique invariant measure

Logic 2016-10-26 v3 Combinatorics Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider the space of countable structures with fixed underlying set in a given countable language. We show that the number of ergodic probability measures on this space that are SS_\infty-invariant and concentrated on a single isomorphism class must be zero, or one, or continuum. Further, such an isomorphism class admits a unique SS_\infty-invariant probability measure precisely when the structure is highly homogeneous; by a result of Peter J. Cameron, these are the structures that are interdefinable with one of the five reducts of the rational linear order (Q,<)(\mathbb{Q}, <).

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@article{arxiv.1412.2735,
  title  = {A classification of orbits admitting a unique invariant measure},
  author = {Nathanael Ackerman and Cameron Freer and Aleksandra Kwiatkowska and Rehana Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2735},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

22 pages. Small changes following referee suggestions

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