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Belinskaya's theorem is optimal

Dynamical Systems 2023-07-10 v5 Functional Analysis Group Theory

Abstract

Belinskaya's theorem states that given an ergodic measure-preserving transformation, any other transformation with the same orbits and an L1\mathrm{L}^1 cocycle must be flip-conjugate to it. Our main result shows that this theorem is optimal: for all p<1p<1 the integrability condition on the cocycle cannot be relaxed to being in Lp\mathrm{L}^p. This also allows us to answer a question of Kerr and Li: for ergodic measure-preserving transformations, Shannon orbit equivalence doesn't boil down to flip-conjugacy.

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@article{arxiv.2201.06662,
  title  = {Belinskaya's theorem is optimal},
  author = {Alessandro Carderi and Matthieu Joseph and François Le Maître and Romain Tessera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06662},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Some more fixes in the appendix; added a reference to M. Joseph's thesis in Remark 3.4. Final final version matching the online first version in Fundamenta Mathematicae

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