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A symmetric random walk on the circle
Example
Assume countable choice and let carry its normalized Haar probability . Fix . The symmetric random walk that adds or with equal probability has kernel where addition is modulo one. This is a probability kernel reversible with respect to , hence is invariant. The transition law is atomic; no transition density is used.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The circle , its normalized Haar probability , and .
Countable choice is assumed only through the existing normalized-circle-measure interface; no full Axiom of Choice is assumed. (The Axiom of Countable Choice ())
The one-dimensional torus carries the normalized Borel probability ; the supplied construction explicitly assumes . (The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral)
Each translation is continuous. (The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral)
Each translation preserves . (The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral)
A probability kernel has probability-measure rows and measurable event evaluations. (Measure kernel and probability kernel)
The product sigma-algebra is generated by measurable rectangles. (The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates)
The joint flow measure satisfies the kernel iterated-integral identity for every nonnegative product-measurable function. (A prior and model kernel define a joint law)
For a measure-preserving map and nonnegative measurable , . (Measure-preserving transformations and systems, Integral invariance under measure-preserving maps)
Reversibility means equality of the joint flow measure with its coordinate transpose. (General-state reversibility by symmetric flow measure)
Reversibility implies invariance. (General-state reversibility implies invariance)
Verification
Given: , , , and .
Proof technique: Verify the kernel directly, write its joint flow on measurable sets, and change variables by the measure-preserving translations.
For fixed , is measurable by [F2]; the two translated points are distinct since , each row has total mass one, and disjoint-event indicators add pointwise, so [F4] makes a probability kernel.
For product-measurable , the graph maps are measurable because rectangle preimages are measurable by [F5]; with , the joint-law formula [F6] gives .
The swap map is measurable by [F5]. The identities and and [F6] give . By [F3] and [F7] this equals the expression for in step 2.1, for every product-measurable .
By [F8], symmetry makes reversible; [F9] then makes invariant. Countable choice is inherited only through the supplied circle measure; the kernel calculation uses no further choice.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral
- Measure-preserving transformations and systems
- Integral invariance under measure-preserving maps
- Measure kernel and probability kernel
- The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates
- A prior and model kernel define a joint law
- General-state reversibility by symmetric flow measure
- General-state reversibility implies invariance
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