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Chacon partial maps extend to an invertible map mod null sets

Statement

Assume AC. The partial translations of the normalized Chacon towers determine an invertible Lebesgue-probability-preserving transformation modulo null sets. There is a measurable conull X0[0,1) on which both directions are everywhere defined and measurable and T(X0)=X0. Extending by the identity off X0 gives an ambient measure-preserving map.

Facts & Assumptions

[F1]

The towers and consecutive-level translations are defined with height hr and width wr=2/3r+1 Chacon three cut one spacer towers.

[F3]

Countable unions of measurable null sets are null Finite and countable subadditivity of measures.

[F4]

Increasing measurable unions have measure equal to the supremum Continuity from below for measures.

[F5]

Invertibility modulo null sets means an actual measurable invariant conull restriction with measurable inverse Invertible measure-preserving systems.

[F6]

Proof

Given: The finite Chacon towers under AC.

1.1

Put Dr=CrLr,hr1 and Er=CrLr,0. On each of its finitely many levels Tr is a translation to the next level of the same width. Thus it is a measurable measure-preserving bijection DrEr with measurable inverse. At stage zero both sets are empty. At the next stage each old non-top arrow restricts to the three corresponding third-to-third arrows; the remaining new arrows connect column tops to the next bases or spacer. Thus DrDr+1, ErEr+1 and Tr+1 extends Tr, as do their inverses.

F1F2F6
2.1

The complement of either Dr or Er has measure 3(r+1)+wr=3r. Hence D=rDr and E=rEr are conull by continuity from below. Compatible unions give a bijection T:DE. Partition D into the measurable pieces DrDr1 (with D1=), subdivided by the finitely many level pieces of Tr. On each it is a translation; the images are disjoint because the union map is injective. Countable additivity and F2 therefore prove that images and preimages of measurable sets are measurable and have the same measure in the two domains. This also proves measurability of both directions.

F2F4step 1.1
3.1

Define B0=[0,1)(DE) and recursively Bn+1=BnT(BnD)T1(BnE). Each Bn is measurable and null by step 2.1 and induction. Thus B=n0Bn is measurable and null. Put X0=[0,1)BDE. If xX0 and TxBn, then xT1(BnE)Bn+1, impossible. The analogous implication using T(BnD) shows T1xX0. Hence both directions preserve X0 and restrict to measurable inverse bijections there.

F3step 2.1
4.1

On X0 measure preservation is inherited from step 2.1. Define the ambient map to be the identity on its measurable null complement. This map and its inverse are measurable by the two-piece definition; preimages differ from their X0 preimages only by null subsets of that complement, so it preserves Lebesgue probability. It satisfies exactly F5's conull restriction convention. AC is used through the finite-tower measure assertions and hence the Lebesgue measure properties, with no selection of arbitrary pointwise inverses.

F5F6step 3.1

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