It is enough to show that an extreme operator can be found which preserves no characteristic functions except for the constant functions 1 and 0 [4, Lemma 4]. To this end we consider two (noninvertible) measure preserving transformations:where a 4-b -1. In order to define a mapping on L l Q) which fails to preserve characteristic functions, choose a function 7, 0 < 7 < 1, and set (i) r = 7 :r 0 + (i-7)7VWe will leave the class V unless 7 is also chosen so that (ii) is satisfied. This