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A nonstandard-analytic proof of a theorem regarding noncommutative ergodic optimizations

Operator Algebras 2021-09-30 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In a previous article, we extended the notion of ergodic optimization to the setting of C*-dynamical systems of countable discrete groups. Among the key results of that paper was that given an action GΞMG \stackrel{\Xi}{\curvearrowright} \mathfrak{M} of a countable discrete amenable group GG on a W*-probability space (M,ρ)(\mathfrak{M}, \rho) by ρ\rho-preserving *-automorphisms of M\mathfrak{M}, a positive element xMx \in \mathfrak{M}, and a right F{\o}lner sequence F=(Fk)kN\mathcal{F} = (F_k)_{k \in \mathbb{N} } for GG, the sequence (1FkgFkΞgx)kN\left( \left\| \frac{1}{|F_k|} \sum_{g \in F_k} \Xi_g x \right\| \right)_{ k \in \mathbb{N} } converges to a value Γ(x)\Gamma(x) which can be described in the language of ergodic optimization. We provide here an alternate, more direct proof of that theorem using the tools of nonstandard analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2109.13965,
  title  = {A nonstandard-analytic proof of a theorem regarding noncommutative ergodic optimizations},
  author = {Aidan Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13965},
  year   = {2021}
}
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