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Invariant measures for higher-rank hyperbolic abelian actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

A. Katok
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
R. J. Spatzier
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA

Abstract

We investigate invariant ergodic measures for certain partially hyperbolic and Anosov actions of ℝk, ℤk and We show that they are either Haar measures or that every element of the action has zero metric entropy.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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