A family of distal functions and multipliers for strict ergodicity
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Fistal functions, the Weyl algebra, strict ergodicityAbstract
We give two proofs to an old result of E. Salehi, showing that the Weyl subalgebra $\mathcal{W}$ of $\ell^\infty(\Z)$ is a proper subalgebra of $\mathcal{D}$, the algebra of distal functions. We also show that the family $\mathcal{S}^d$ of strictly ergodic functions in $\mathcal{D}$ does not form an algebra and hence in particular does not coincide with $\mathcal{W}$. We then use similar constructions to show that a function which is a multiplier for strict ergodicity, either within $\mathcal{D}$ or in general, is necessarily a constant. An example of a metric, strictly ergodic, distal flow is constructed which admits a non-strictly ergodic $2$-fold minimal self-joining. It then follows that the enveloping group of this flow is not strictly ergodic (as a $T$-flow). Finally we show that the distal, strictly ergodic Heisenberg nil-flow is relatively disjoint over its largest equicontinuous factor from the universal Weyl flow $|\mathcal{W}|$.References
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