Automorphism groups of measures on the Cantor space. Part II: Abstract homogeneous measures

Abstract

The main aim of the paper is to introduce a new class of (semigroup-valued) measures that are ultrahomogeneous on the Boolean algebra of all clopen subsets of the Cantor space and to study their automorphism groups. A characterisation, in terms of the so-called trinary spectrum of a measure, of ultrahomogeneous measures such that the action of their automorphism groups is (topologically) transitive or minimal is given. Also sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of a dense (or co-meager) conjugacy class in these groups are offered. In particular, it is shown that there are uncountably many full non-atomic probability Borel measures m on the Cantor space such that m and all its restrictions to arbitrary non-empty clopen sets have all the following properties: this measure is ultrahomogeneous and not good, the action of its automorphism group G is minimal (on a respective clopen set), and G has a dense conjugacy class. It is also shown that any minimal homeomorphism h on the Cantor space induces a homogeneous h-invariant probability measure that is universal among all h-invariant probability measures (which means that it `generates' all such measures) and this property determines this measure (in a certain sense) up to a Q-linear isomorphism.