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Finite group extensions of irrational rotations

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The ergodicity of certain skew products of irrational rotations of the circle with finite groups is established with application to the construction of “well-distributed sequence generators” for finite groups.

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Research supported by NSF-GP-18961.

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Veech, W.A. Finite group extensions of irrational rotations. Israel J. Math. 21, 240–259 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760801

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