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The scenery factor of the ${[T,T^{-1}]}$ transformation is not loosely Bernoulli

Author(s): Christopher Hoffman
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 3731-3735.
MSC (2000): Primary 28D05
Posted: July 9, 2003
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Abstract: Kalikow (1982) proved that the $[T,T^{-1}]$ transformation is not isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift. We show that the scenery factor of the $[T,T^{-1}]$ transformation is not isomorphic to a Bernoulli shift. Moreover, we show that it is not Kakutani equivalent to a Bernoulli shift.

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Christopher Hoffman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
Email: hoffman@math.washington.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07206-X
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07206-X
Received by editor(s): June 7, 2002
Posted: July 9, 2003
Communicated by: Michael Handel
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society

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