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Time change rigidity for unipotent flows

Dynamical Systems 2025-02-13 v1

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/Γ1\mathbf{G}_{1}/\Gamma_1 is such a flow it satisfies exactly one of the following: (1) The flow is loosely Kronecker, and hence measurably 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/Γ1\mathbf{G}_1/\Gamma_1 is measurably isomorphic after time change to another such flow ut(2)u^{(2)} _ t on G2/Γ2\mathbf{G}_2/\Gamma _ 2, then G1/Γ1\mathbf{G}_1/\Gamma_1 is isomorphic to G2/Γ2\mathbf{G}_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 up to a renormalization.

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@article{arxiv.2502.08081,
  title  = {Time change rigidity for unipotent flows},
  author = {Elon Lindenstrauss and Daren Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08081},
  year   = {2025}
}

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115 pages

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