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Pointwise recurrence for commuting measure preserving transformations

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-24 v2

Abstract

Let (X,A,μ)(X,\mathcal{A}, \mu) be a probability measure space and let Ti,T_i, 1iH,1\leq i\leq H, be commuting invertible measure preserving transformations on this measure space. We prove the following pointwise results; The averages 1Nn=1Nf1(T1nx)f2(T2nx)fH(THnx)\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N f_1(T_1^nx)f_2(T_2^nx)\cdots f_H(T_H^nx) converge a.e. for every function fiL(μ)f_i \in L^{\infty}(\mu) .\\ As a consequence if Ti=TiT_i = T^i for 1iH1\leq i \leq H where TT is an invertible measure preserving transformation on (X,A,μ)(X, \mathcal{A}, \mu) then the averages 1Nn=1Nf1(Tnx)f2(T2nx)...fH(THnx)\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N f_1(T^nx)f_2(T^{2n}x)...f_H(T^{Hn}x) converge a.e. This solves a long open question on the pointwise convergence of nonconventional ergodic averages. For H=2H=2 it provides another proof of J. Bourgain's a.e. double recurrence theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1312.5270,
  title  = {Pointwise recurrence for commuting measure preserving transformations},
  author = {Idris Assani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5270},
  year   = {2015}
}

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This replaces the paper arXiv:1312.5270

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