In this note, we give a nature action of the modular group on the ends of the infinite (p + 1)-cayley tree, for each prime p. We show that there is a unique invariant probability measure for each p.
In this work, we investigate the dynamical and geometric properties of weak solenoids, as part of the development of a calculus of group chains associated to Cantor minimal actions. The study of the properties of group chains was initiated in the wor
ks of McCord 1965 and Fokkink and Oversteegen 2002, to study the problem of determining which weak solenoids are homogeneous continua. We develop an alternative condition for the homogeneity in terms of the Ellis semigroup of the action, then investigate the relationship between non-homogeneity of a weak solenoid and its discriminant invariant, which we introduce in this work. A key part of our study is the construction of new examples that illustrate various subtle properties of group chains that correspond to geometric properties of non-homogeneous weak solenoids.
We consider the action of $SL(2,mathbb{R})$ on a vector bundle $mathbf{H}$ preserving an ergodic probability measure $ u$ on the base $X$. Under an irreducibility assumption on this action, we prove that if $hat u$ is any lift of $ u$ to a probabilit
y measure on the projectivized bunde $mathbb{P}(mathbf{H})$ that is invariant under the upper triangular subgroup, then $hat u$ is supported in the projectivization $mathbb{P}(mathbf{E}_1)$ of the top Lyapunov subspace of the positive diagonal semigroup. We derive two applications. First, the Lyapunov exponents for the Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle depend continuously on affine measures, answering a question in [MMY]. Second, if $mathbb{P}(mathbf{V})$ is an irreducible, flat projective bundle over a compact hyperbolic surface $Sigma$, with hyperbolic foliation $mathcal{F}$ tangent to the flat connection, then the foliated horocycle flow on $T^1mathcal{F}$ is uniquely ergodic if the top Lyapunov exponent of the foliated geodesic flow is simple. This generalizes results in [BG] to arbitrary dimension.
We consider a minimal equicontinuous action of a finitely generated group $G$ on a Cantor set $X$ with invariant probability measure $mu$, and stabilizers of points for such an action. We give sufficient conditions under which there exists a subgroup
$H$ of $G$ such that the set of points in $X$ whose stabilizers are conjugate to $H$ has full measure. The conditions are that the action is locally quasi-analytic and locally non-degenerate. An action is locally quasi-analytic if its elements have unique extensions on subsets of uniform diameter. The condition that the action is locally non-degenerate is introduced in this paper. We apply our results to study the properties of invariant random subgroups induced by minimal equicontinuous actions on Cantor sets and to certain almost one-to-one extensions of equicontinuous actions.
Given a general Anosov abelian action on a closed manifold, we study properties of certain invariant measures that have recently been introduced in cite{BGHW20} using the theory of Ruelle-Taylor resonances. We show that these measures share many prop
erties of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures for general Anosov flows such as smooth desintegrations along the unstable foliation, positive Lebesgue measure basins of attraction and a Bowen formula in terms of periodic orbits.
Let $H_3(Bbb R)$ denote the 3-dimensional real Heisenberg group. Given a family of lattices $Gamma_1supsetGamma_2supsetcdots$ in it, let $T$ stand for the associated uniquely ergodic $H_3(Bbb R)$-{it odometer}, i.e. the inverse limit of the $H_3(Bbb
R)$-actions by rotations on the homogeneous spaces $H_3(Bbb R)/Gamma_j$, $jinBbb N$. The decomposition of the underlying Koopman unitary representation of $H_3(Bbb R)$ into a countable direct sum of irreducible components is explicitly described. The ergodic 2-fold self-joinings of $T$ are found. It is shown that in general, the $H_3(Bbb R)$-odometers are neither isospectral nor spectrally determined.