Lebesgue Measure Preserving Thompson's Monoid

Abstract

This paper defines Lebesgue measure preserving Thompson's monoid, denoted by $\mathbb{G}$, which is modeled on Thompson's group $\mathbb{F}$ except that the elements of $\mathbb{G}$ are non-invertible. Moreover, it is required that the elements of $\mathbb{G}$ preserve Lebesgue measure. Monoid $\mathbb{G}$ exhibits very different properties from Thompson's group $\mathbb{F}$. The paper studies a number of algebraic (group-theoretic) and dynamical properties of $\mathbb{G}$ including approximation, mixing, periodicity, entropy, decomposition, generators, and topological conjugacy.

50 pages, 29 figures