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Rigidity of measures invariant under the action of a multiplicative semigroup of polynomial growth on 𝕋

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

MANFRED EINSIEDLER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1174, USA (email: [email protected])
ALEXANDER FISH
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1174, USA (email: [email protected])

Abstract

We prove that if a Borel probability measure on the circle group is invariant under the action of a ‘large’ multiplicative semigroup (lower logarithmic density is positive) and the action of the whole semigroup is ergodic then the measure is either Lebesgue or has finite support.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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