An Introduction to Ergodic Theory

0 Preliminaries.- §0.1 Introduction.- §0.2 Measure Spaces.- §0.3 Integration.- §0.4 Absolutely Continuous Measures and Conditional Expectations.- §0.5 Function Spaces.- §0.6 Haar Measure.- §0.7 Character Theory.- §0.8 Endomorphisms of Tori.- §0.9 Perron-Frobenius Theory.- §0.10 Topology.- 1 Measure-Preserving Transformations.- §1.1 Definition and Examples.- §1.2 Problems in Ergodic Theory.- §1.3 Associated Isometries.- §1.4 Recurrence.- §1.5 Ergodicity.- §1.6 The Ergodic Theorem.- §1.7 Mixing.- 2 Isomorphism, Conjugacy, and Spectral Isomorphism.- §2.1 Point Maps and Set Maps.- §2.2 Isomorphism of Measure-Preserving Transformations.- §2.3 Conjugacy of Measure-Preserving Transformations.- §2.4 The Isomorphism Problem.- §2.5 Spectral Isomorphism.- §2.6 Spectral Invariants.- 3 Measure-Preserving Transformations with Discrete Spectrum.- §3.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions.- §3.2 Discrete Spectrum.- §3.3 Group Rotations.- 4 Entropy.- §4.1 Partitions and Subalgebras.- §4.2 Entropy of a Partition.- §4.3 Conditional Entropy.- §4.4 Entropy of a Measure-Preserving Transformation.- §4.5 Properties of h (T, A) and h (T).- §4.6 Some Methods for Calculating h (T).- §4.7 Examples.- §4.8 How Good an Invariant is Entropy?.- §4.9 Bernoulli Automorphisms and Kolmogorov Automorphisms.- §4.10 The Pinsker ?-Algebra of a Measure-Preserving Transformation.- §4.11 Sequence Entropy.- §4.12 Non-invertible Transformations.- §4.13 Comments.- 5 Topological Dynamics.- §5.1 Examples.- §5.2 Minimality.- §5.3 The Non-wandering Set.- §5.4 Topological Transitivity.- §5.5 Topological Conjugacy and Discrete Spectrum.- §5.6 Expansive Homeomorphisms.- 6 Invariant Measures for Continuous Transformations.- §6.1 Measures on Metric Spaces.- §6.2 Invariant Measures for Continuous Transformations.- §6.3 Interpretation of Ergodicity and Mixing.- §6.4 Relation of Invariant Measures to Non-wandering Sets, Periodic Points and Topological Transitivity.- §6.5 Unique Ergodicity.- §6.6 Examples.- 7 Topological Entropy.-§7.1 Definition Using Open Covers.- §7.2 Bowen's Definition.- §7.3 Calculation of Topological Entropy.- 8 Relationship Between Topological Entropy and Measure-Theoretic Entropy.- §8.1 The Entropy Map.- §8.2 The Variational Principle.- §8.3 Measures with Maximal Entropy.- §8.4 Entropy of Affine Transformations.- §8.5 The Distribution of Periodic Points.- §8.6 Definition of Measure-Theoretic Entropy Using the Metrics dn.- 9 Topological Pressure and Its Relationship with Invariant Measures.- §9.1 Topological Pressure.- §9.2 Properties of Pressure.- §9.3 The Variational Principle.- §9.4 Pressure Determines M(X, T).- §9.5 Equilibrium States.- 10 Applications and Other Topics.- §10.1 The Qualitative Behaviour of Diffeomorphisms.- §10.2 The Subadditive Ergodic Theorem and the Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem.- §10.3 Quasi-invariant Measures.- §10.4 Other Types of Isomorphism.- §10.5 Transformations of Intervals.- §10.6 Further Reading.- References.