Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 29th of April 2009, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Almost every pair of interval exchange transformations is disjoint

Jon Chaika of Rice University


In this talk will show that almost every pair of interval exchange transformations (IETs) is disjoint. To show this, isomorphism invariants of mixing sequences and rigidity sequences will be introduced and it will be shown that any sequence of density 1 has a rigidity sequence for almost every IET.

(This is a strengthening of Veech's result).