Invariant Probability Measures under $p$-adic Transformations

Abstract

It is well-known that the Lebesgue measure is the unique absolutely continuous invariant probability measure under the $p$-adic transformation. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the family of all invariant probability measures under the $p$-adic transformation and to provide some description of them. In particular, we describe the subfamily of all atomic invariant measures under the $p$-adic transformation as well as the subfamily of all continuous and singular invariant probability measures under the $p$-adic transformation. Iterative functional equations play the base role in our considerations.