Abstract
The natural invertible extension T* of an Nd-action T has been studied by Lacroix. He showed that T* may fail to be mixing even if T is mixing for d ³ 2. We extend this observation by showing that if T is mixing on (k+1) sets then T* is in general mixing on no more than k sets, simply because Nd has a corner. Several examples are constructed when d = 2: (i) a mixing T for which T*(n,m) has an identity factor whenever n·m < 0; (ii) a mixing T for which T* is rigid but T*(n,m) is mixing for all (n,m) ¹ (0,0); (iii) a T mixing on 3 sets for which T* is not mixing on 3 sets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 307-311 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Acta Mathematica Universitatis Comenianae |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |