Ergodic exchangeable relational laws are the extreme points (R3c step 2, #106) #
Port of Mathlib/Dynamics/Ergodic/Extreme.lean from a single measure-preserving self-map to
the countable group of finitely supported sortwise relabelings acting on
RelStructure S (Vinfinite S):
RelSignature.countable_setOf_sortwiseFinSupp— with finitely many sorts, the finitely supported sortwise permutation families form a countable set;InfiniteRelExchangeableLaw.measure_zero_or_one_of_ae_invariant— the zero-one law upgrades from strictly invariant to almost-everywhere invariant events, via the countable invariant hull⋃ σ, relabel σ ⁻¹' Eover the relabeling group;InfiniteRelExchangeableLaw.eq_of_absolutelyContinuous— a relabeling-invariant probability measure absolutely continuous with respect to an ergodic exchangeable law is equal to it (the Radon–Nikodym derivative is a.e.1by the zero-one law);InfiniteRelExchangeableLaw.isErgodic_iff_mem_extremePoints— the headline: ergodicity of an exchangeable relational law is equivalent to extremality among the relabeling-invariant probability measures.
Composition laws for relabeling #
Relabelings compose contravariantly: relabeling by τ and then by σ is relabeling
by the pointwise product fun s => τ s * σ s (definitional, via RelStructure.comap_comp).
Relabeling by the identity family is the identity (definitional).
Countability of the finitely supported relabeling group #
With finitely many sorts, the finitely supported sortwise permutation families form a
countable set: a family supported below N is determined by its values on Fin N, so each
level of the exhaustion injects into the countable type S.Srt → Fin N → ℕ.
The zero-one law for almost invariant events #
Almost invariant events obey the zero-one law: if E is measurable and a.e. invariant
under every finitely supported sortwise relabeling, then its invariant hull — the union of its
preimages over the countable relabeling group — is measurable, strictly invariant, and a.e.
equal to E, so ergodicity forces E itself to be null or conull.
Absolute continuity and ergodicity #
An invariant probability measure absolutely continuous with respect to an ergodic
exchangeable law equals it. The Radon–Nikodym derivative is a.e. invariant under each
relabeling (MeasurePreserving.rnDeriv_comp_aeEq), so its sub- and super-level sets at 1
are a.e. invariant, hence null or conull by the zero-one upgrade; strict monotonicity of the
set integral rules out the conull cases, so the derivative is a.e. 1.
The extreme-point characterization #
The law of an exchangeable relational structure is an invariant probability measure: membership in the candidate set of the extreme-point characterization.
An extreme invariant probability measure is ergodic: if some strictly invariant event had intermediate measure, conditioning on it and its complement would exhibit the law as a proper convex combination of two distinct invariant probability measures.
An ergodic exchangeable relational law is an extreme point of the relabeling-invariant
probability measures: any measure appearing in a proper convex decomposition is absolutely
continuous, hence equal to the law by eq_of_absolutelyContinuous.
Ergodicity is extremality (headline of R3c step 2): an exchangeable relational law is ergodic for the finitely supported sortwise relabeling group if and only if it is an extreme point of the set of relabeling-invariant probability measures on the infinite structure space.