Subject associations
MAT 587
Term
Fall 2025
Instructors
Elon B. Lindenstrauss
Registrar description
An introduction to ergodic theory with an emphasis on entropy theory. Ergodic theory is one branch in mathematical dynamics: the study of group actions on spaces preserving the structure on the space. A key feature is having complicated orbits so that one cannot simply quotient the space by the action. The relevant structure is that of a measure space; we mostly focus on the case of probability measure spaces. These have a rich theory on their own and have had some remarkable applications that seem to have nothing to do with ergodic theory: for instance Margulis Normal Subgroup Theorem, Furstenberg's proof of Szemeredi's Theorem, etc.