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The purpose of this paper is to give a survey over some major fields of current research in ergodic theory and to depict some cluster of problems and results in more detail. For other surveys see e.g. Rokhlin [1], [2], [5], Oxtoby [1], Halmos [1], [2], Jacobs [2], Ornstein [7], [8], Sinai [9], Friedman-Ornstein [2]. I didn’t aim at completeness at all and apologize to those authors who miss their papers in the bibliography, in particular Akcoglu, Sucheston and Jones who have done important work on iterates of operators recently.
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Jacobs, K. (1977). Recent Developments in Ergodic Theory. In: Kožešnik, J. (eds) Transactions of the Seventh Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, Random Processes and of the 1974 European Meeting of Statisticians. Transactions of the Seventh Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, Random Processes and of the 1974 European Meeting of Statisticians, vol 7A. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9910-3_30
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