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MATH429 INTRODUCTION TO ERGODIC THEORY

Course Code: 2360429
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.
Prerequisite: Set 1: 2360419
The course set above should be completed before taking MATH429 INTRODUCTION TO ERGODIC THEORY.

Course Content

Overview Of measure spaces. Measure-preserving transfornations. Recurrence and the Poincaré recurrence theorem. Ergodic transformations. The Birkhoff ergodic theorem and von Neumann mean ergodi? theorem. Applications of ergodic theorems. Weak and strong mixing transformations. Isomorphism and factors of measure-preserving transformations. Basics of topological Dynamics. Existence of invariant measures for continuous transformations and the KryIoff-Bogoliouboff theorem.Various selected advanced topics such ag measure-theoretic entropy etc.