An invertible measure-preserving system is ergodic exactly when the fixed space of its Koopman operator on consists only of almost-everywhere constant functions. One direction applies invariance to level sets; the other applies it to indicator functions of invariant sets.
An invertible measure-preserving system has a measurable inverse modulo null sets and preserves its measure in both time directions. Its Koopman operator on is unitary.
The map is a nonsingular transformation with respect to when
Equivalently, the pushforward measure satisfies .
For an essentially bounded observable , define the Koopman operator
Nonsingularity makes this well defined on almost-everywhere equivalence classes. By the Radon-Nikodym theorem,
Consequently the bounded Koopman operator criterion is