Ergodic Theory: Independence and Dichotomies

Preface.- Introduction.- General Framework and Notational Conventions.- Part 1 Weak Mixing Comactness.- Basic Concepts in Ergodic Theory.- Structure Theory for P.M.P. Actions.- Amenability.- Property (T).- Orbit Equivalence Beyond Amenability.- Topological Dynamics.- Tameness and Independence.- Part 2 Entropy.- Entropy for Actions of Amenable Groups.- Entropy for Actions of Sofic Groups.- The f-invariant.- Entropy and Independence.- Algebraic Actions: Expansiveness, Homoclinicity, and Entropy.- Algebraic Actions: Entropy and the Fuglede-Kadison Determinant.- Appendix A. Polish Spaces and Standard Borel Spaces.- Appendix B. Positive Definite Functions and Weak Containment.- Appendix C. Hilbert Modules.- Appendix D. Weakly Almost Periodic Functions.- Appendix E. Gaussian Actions.