Almost-everywhere unique ergodicity along lines and analytic curves

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Let R+d\mathbb{R}^d_+ denote the positive cone, and let a∈R+d\mathbf{a}\in\mathbb{R}^d_+. A point is uniquely ergodic when the associated interval exchange transformation has a unique invariant probability measure.

The lines-and-curves conjecture. (Lines) If a\mathbf{a} is uniquely ergodic and ℓ\ell is a line in R+d\mathbb{R}^d_+ passing through a\mathbf{a}, then there is a neighborhood U\mathcal{U} of a\mathbf{a} such that almost every a′∈ℓ∩U\mathbf{a}'\in\ell\cap\mathcal{U}, with respect to Lebesgue measure on ℓ\ell, is uniquely ergodic. (Curves) If a(s)\mathbf{a}(s) is an analytic curve in R+d\mathbb{R}^d_+ whose image is not contained in a proper affine subspace, then for almost every ss, with respect to Lebesgue measure on the real line, a(s)\mathbf{a}(s) is uniquely ergodic. These are interval-exchange analogues of results for related Diophantine-approximation problems. The paper states that its horocycle-flow methods are insufficient for the line assertion, and the conjectures remain open in the supplied source.

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Yair N. Minsky and Barak Weiss, “Cohomology classes represented by measured foliations, and Mahler's question for interval exchanges”, arXiv:1102.4719 (2011).

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