The natural extension of the β-transformation

Abstract

For each real number β>1 the β-transformation is dened by Tβx = βx(mod1). In this paper the natural extension Tβ of the ergodic system underlying Tβ is explicitly given. Furthermore, it is shown that a certain induced system of this natural extension is Bernoulli. Since Tβ is weakly mixing, due to W. Parry, it follows from a deep result of A. Saleski that the natural extension is also Bernoulli, a result previously obtained by M. Smorodinsky.