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The complexity of the collection of measure-distal transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Ferenc Beleznay  and
Matthew Foreman
Ferenc Beleznay
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Matthew Foreman
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, CA 92715, USA
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Abstract

It is shown that the collection of measure-distal transformations is a complete co-analytic set and that the Furstenberg order is a -norm. Various other results about skew products are also shown.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , October 1996 , pp. 929 - 962
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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