Abstract
Classical ergodic theory deals with measure (or measure class) preserving actions of locally compact groups on Lebesgue spaces. An important tool in this setting is a theorem of Mackey which provides spatial models for Boolean G-actions. We show that in full generality this theorem does not hold for actions of Polish groups. In particular there is no Borel model for the Polish automorphism group of a Gaussian measure. In fact, we show that this group as well as many other Polish groups do not admit any nontrivial Borel measure preserving actions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 305-329 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Israel Journal of Mathematics |
| Volume | 148 |
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| State | Published - 2005 |