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Non-commutative skew-product extension dynamical systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2025

SIMONE DEL VECCHIO*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Edoardo Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

Abstract

Starting from a uniquely ergodic action of a locally compact group G on a compact space $X_0$, we consider non-commutative skew-product extensions of the dynamics, on the crossed product $C(X_0)\rtimes _\alpha {\mathbb Z}$, through a $1$-cocycle of G in ${\mathbb T}$, with $\alpha $ commuting with the given dynamics. We first prove that any two such skew-product extensions are conjugate if and only if the corresponding cocycles are cohomologous. We then study unique ergodicity and unique ergodicity with respect to the fixed-point subalgebra by characterizing both in terms of the cocycle assigning the dynamics. The set of all invariant states is also determined: it is affinely homeomorphic with ${\mathcal P}({\mathbb T})$, the Borel probability measures on the one-dimensional torus ${\mathbb T}$, as long as the system is not uniquely ergodic. Finally, we show that unique ergodicity with respect to the fixed-point subalgebra of a skew-product extension amounts to the uniqueness of an invariant conditional expectation onto the fixed-point subalgebra.

Type
Original Article
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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