Stationary Measures and Equidistribution on the Torus
| ANALYSIS SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | Stationary Measures and Equidistribution on the Torus |
| Speaker: | Elon Lindenstrauss |
| Affiliation: | Princeton University |
| Date: | Wednesday, April 2 |
| Time/Room: | 10:30am - 11:30am/West Bldg. Lecture Hall |
In this talk I will consider actions of non-abelian groups on n-dimensional tori, explain the notions of stiffness and stationary measures, and show how under fairly general assumptions stationary measures can be classified. A key ingredient is a result of Bourgain related to the sum product phenomena on the reals.
In particular, we prove the following: let A, B be two non commuting 2x2 integer matrices of determinant one. Consider a random product X_r....X_1.y where y is a point in the two torus. We show that as r--> infinity this random product is distributed in an increasingly uniform manner.
Based on joint work with Bourgain, Furman and Mozes.