Rank-1 transformations with trivial centralizer | Department of Mathematics

Rank-1 transformations with trivial centralizer

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461, 2-3:30 pm
Event Date: 
Friday, November 2, 2012 - 2:00pm

I'll first give some background about concrete rank-1 systems (each such system can be viewed as a measure-preserving transformation on a standard Lebesgue space and can also be viewed as a homeomorphism of a Cantor space). Then I'll describe a simple condition on the canonical generating sequence of a concrete rank-1 system which guarantees that the concrete rank-1 system has trivial centralizer in the group of measure-preserving transformations.