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The behavior of Bernoulli shifts relative to their factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Abstract

We present numerous examples of ways that a Bernoulli shift can behave relative to a family of factors. This shows the similarities between the properties which collections of ergodic transformations can have and the behavior of a Bernoulli shift relative to a collection of its factors. For example, we construct a family of factors of a Bernoulli shift which have the same entropy, and any extension of one of these factors has more entropy, yet no two of these factors sit the same. This is the relative analog of Ornstein and Shields uncountable collection of nonisomorphic $K$ transformations of the same entropy. We are able to construct relative analogs of almost all the zero entropy counter-examples constructed by Rudolph (1979), as well as the $K$ counterexamples constructed by Hoffman (1997). This paper provides a solution to a problem posed by Ornstein (1975).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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