K-property for Maharam extensions of non-singular Bernoulli and Markov shifts

Abstract

It is shown that each conservative non-singular Bernoulli shift is either of type or . Moreover, in the latter case the corresponding Maharam extension of the shift is a -automorphism. This extends earlier results obtained by Kosloff for equilibrial shifts. Non-equilibrial shifts of type are constructed. We further generalize (partly) the main results to non-singular Markov shifts.