Volume 9 (2026)
Chaika, Jon;  Robertson, Donald
A rank one mild mixing system without minimal self joinings
Annales Henri Lebesgue, Volume 9 (2026), pp. 97-145

Metadata

DOI10.5802/ahl.262
Keywords Mild mixing ,  Rank one ,  Self-joinings

Abstract

We show that there is a rank $1$ transformation that is mildly mixing but does not have minimal self-joinings, answering a question of Thouvenot.


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