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Group actions and singular martingales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2003

JOSEPH ROSENBLATT
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 43210, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
DANIEL STROOCK
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 02139, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
MICHAEL TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

We investigate properties of a class of martingales formed by picking a measurable set A in a compact group G, taking random rotates of A, and taking measures of the resulting intersections, suitably normalized. Such martingales are shown to yield measures on G^\infty that are singular with respect to product Haar measure, and their ergodic decompositions with respect to the shift map are analyzed. Connections are made with De Finetti theory.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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