Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-c52kr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-09T06:11:53.464Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

An endomorphism whose square is Bernoulli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2004

CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA (e-mail: hoffman@math.washington.edu)
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.

One of the corollaries of Ornstein's isomorphism theorem is that if $(Y,S,\nu)$ is an invertible measure-preserving transformation and $(Y,S^2,\nu)$ is isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift, then $(Y,S,\nu)$ is isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift. In this paper we show that non-invertible transformations do not share this property. We do this by exhibiting a uniformly two-to-one endomorphism $(X,\sigma,\mu)$ which is not isomorphic to the one-sided Bernoulli two shift. However, $(X,T^2,\mu)$ is isomorphic to the one-sided Bernoulli four shift.

Information

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press