MTH 831 (Fall 2018): Ergodic Theory


Instructor: Hanfeng Li

Office: 104 Mathematics Building.     Phone: 645-8762 

Office Hours: M 3-4pm, W 2-3pm.

Lectures: TR 2:00-3:20pm

Room: Math 235
Course Description
This is an introductory course on ergodic theory. We shall discuss the basics of group actions in both topological setting and measure-theoretic setting: ergodicity, weak mixing, mixing, recurrence, minimality, measure entropy, topological entropy, and variational principle.

Recommended Reading
         An Introduction to Ergodic Theory    by Walters,
         Ergodic Theory with a view towards Number Theory     by Einsiedler and Ward,
         Ergodic Theory: Independence and Dichotomies      by Kerr and Li.

Prerequisite

         Basics of measure theory: MTH 534.


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