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Ergodicity, freeness, and Poincaré recurrence are the three most basic properties in ergodic theory, and not coincidentally they can all be motivated in analogy with the simple picture that describes arbitrary group actions on ordinary sets.
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Kerr, D., Li, H. (2016). Basic Concepts in Ergodic Theory. In: Ergodic Theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49847-8_2
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