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Mixing on Sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nathaniel A. Friedman
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Our aim is to study the mixing sequences of a weak mixing transformation. An ergodic measure preserving transformation is weak mixing if and only if for each pair of sets there exists a sequence of density one on which the transformation mixes the sets [9]. An unpublished result of S. Kakutani implies there actually exists a single sequence of density one on which the transformation is mixing for all sets (see Section 3). This result motivated the general définition of a transformation being mixing on a sequence, as well as mixing of higher order on a sequence. Given a weak mixing transformation, there exist sequences along which it is mixing of all degrees. In particular, this is the case for an eventually independent sequence [7].

In Section 3 it will be shown that if T is weak mixing but not mixing, then a sequence on which T is two-mixing must have upper density zero.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1983 , pp. 339 - 352
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1983

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