Skip to Main Content

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1900, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to longer research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

ISSN 1088-6850 (online) ISSN 0002-9947 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is 1.48.

What is MCQ? The Mathematical Citation Quotient (MCQ) measures journal impact by looking at citations over a five-year period. Subscribers to MathSciNet may click through for more detailed information.

 

Measures on Cantor sets: The good, the ugly, the bad
HTML articles powered by AMS MathViewer

by Sergey Bezuglyi and David Handelman PDF
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 6247-6311 Request permission

Abstract:

We translate Akin’s notion of good (and related concepts) from measures on Cantor sets to traces on dimension groups, and particularly for invariant measures of minimal homeomorphisms (and their corresponding simple dimension groups). This yields characterizations and examples, which translate back to the original context. Good traces on a simple dimension group are characterized by their kernel having dense image in their annihilating set of affine functions on the trace space; this makes it possible to construct many examples with seemingly paradoxical properties.

In order to study the related property of refinability, we consider goodness for sets of measures (traces on dimension groups), and obtain partial characterizations in terms of (special) convex subsets of Choquet simplices.

These notions are also very closely related to unperforation of quotients of dimension groups by convex subgroups (that are not order ideals), and we give partial characterizations. Numerous examples illustrate the results.

References
Similar Articles
Additional Information
  • Sergey Bezuglyi
  • Affiliation: Institute for Low Temperature Physics, 47 Lenin Avenue, 61103 Kharkov, Ukraine
  • MR Author ID: 215325
  • Email: bezuglyi@ilt.kharkov.ua
  • David Handelman
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
  • Email: dehsg@uottawa.ca
  • Received by editor(s): April 5, 2012
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 16, 2012
  • Published electronically: September 4, 2014
  • Additional Notes: The second author was supported by an NSERC discovery grant
    The title of this paper is the correct translation of the title of the Italian spaghetti western (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, D: Sergio Leone), which was changed for U.S. audiences. The English language title, The good, the bad, and the ugly, is clichéd now—over 175 articles in engineering and mathematics use it in their title—but we could not find any titles using the original order.
  • © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 6247-6311
  • MSC (2010): Primary 19K14, 37B99, 46A55; Secondary 28C10, 14P10, 52A20, 06F20
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06035-2
  • MathSciNet review: 3267010