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Product of two staircase rank one transformations that is not loosely Bernoulli

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We construct two staircase rank one transformations whose Cartesian product is not loosely Bernoulli.

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The authors would like to thank Jean-Paul Thouvenot for several discussions on the subject, and the anonymous referee for the relevance of his advice and remarks.

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Kanigowski, A., de la Rue, T. Product of two staircase rank one transformations that is not loosely Bernoulli. JAMA 143, 535–553 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11854-021-0162-7

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