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Mixing and spectral multiplicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

E. Arthur Robinson Jr
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Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Abstract

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A mixing transformation is constructed which has non-simple spectrum of finite multiplicity. This example is based on a rank 1 mixing transformation and is constructed by cutting and stacking. It can be made to be mixing of all orders.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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