Mathematics – Dynamical Systems
Scientific paper
2003-10-25
Mathematics
Dynamical Systems
This version (217 pages, 13 figures) has many minor corrections, but no new material. The book will appear in the Chicago Lect
Scientific paper
Unipotent flows are well-behaved dynamical systems. In particular, Marina Ratner has shown that the closure of every orbit for such a flow is of a nice algebraic (or geometric) form. After presenting some consequences of this important theorem, these lectures explain the main ideas of the proof. Some algebraic technicalities will be pushed to the background. Chapter 1 is the main part of the book. It is intended for a fairly general audience, and provides an elementary introduction to the subject, by presenting examples that illustrate the theorem, some of its applications, and the main ideas involved in the proof. It should be largely accessible to second-year graduate students. Chapter 2 gives an elementary introduction to the theory of entropy. Chapter 3 presents some basic facts of ergodic theory, and Chapter 4 lists some facts about algebraic groups. Chapter 5 presents a fairly complete (but not entirely rigorous) proof of the measure-theoretic version of Ratner's Theorem. (We follow the approach of G.A.Margulis and G.Tomanov.) Unlike the other chapters, it is rather technical.
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