Ergodic Theory and Zd Actions [Paperback]

A mixture of surveys and original articles that span the theory of Zd actions.The classical theory of dynamical systems has tended to concentrate on Z-actions or R-actions. However in recent years there has been considerable progress in the study of higher dimensional actions (i.e. Zd or Rd with d>1). This book represents the proceedings of the 1993-4 Warwick Symposium on Zd actions.The classical theory of dynamical systems has tended to concentrate on Z-actions or R-actions. However in recent years there has been considerable progress in the study of higher dimensional actions (i.e. Zd or Rd with d>1). This book represents the proceedings of the 1993-4 Warwick Symposium on Zd actions.The classical theory of dynamical systems has tended to concentrate on Z-actions or R-actions. In recent years, however, there has been considerable progress in the study of higher dimensional actions (i.e. Zd or Rd with d>1). This book represents the proceedings of the 1993-4 Warwick Symposium on Zd actions. It comprises a mixture of surveys and original articles that span many of the diverse facets of the subject, including important connections with statistical mechanics, number theory and algebra.Part I. Surveys: 1. Ergodic Ramsey theory V. Bergelson; 2. Flows on homogeneous spaces S. Dani; 3. The variational principle for Hausdorff dimension D. Gatzouras and Y. Peres; 4. Boundaries of invariant Markov operators V. Kaimanovic; 5. Squaring and cubing the circle W. Parry; 6. Recent K-theoretic invariants for dynamical systems I. Putnam; 7. Miles of tiles C. Radin; 8. Overlapping cylinders K. Simon; Part II. Research Papers: 1. Uniformity in the polynomial Szemerdi theorem V. Bergelson and R. McCutcheon; 2. Some 2-d symbolic dynamic systems R. Burton and J. Steif; 3. Rigid subshifts K. Eloranta; 4. Entropy of graphs, semigroups and groups S. Friedland; 5. Integers in linear numeration systems C. Frougny and B. Solomyak; 6. Ergodic transforms conjugate to their inverses G. Goodson;l#p