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Weak ergodic averages over dilated measures

Dynamical Systems 2020-11-25 v3

Abstract

Let mNm\in\mathbb{N} and X=(X,X,μ,(Tα)αRm)\textbf{X}=(X,\mathcal{X},\mu,(T_{\alpha})_{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{m}}) be a measure preserving system with an Rm\mathbb{R}^{m}-action. We say that a Borel measure ν\nu on Rm\mathbb{R}^{m} is weakly equidistributed for X\textbf{X} if there exists ARA\subseteq\mathbb{R} of density 1 such that for all fL(μ)f\in L^{\infty}(\mu), we have limtA,tRmf(Ttαx)dν(α)=Xfdμ\lim_{t\in A,t\to\infty}\int_{\mathbb{R}^{m}}f(T_{t \alpha}x)\,d\nu(\alpha)=\int_{X}f\,d\mu for μ\mu-a.e. xXx\in X. Let W(X)W(\textbf{X}) denote the collection of all αRm\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{m} such that the R\mathbb{R}-action (Ttα)tR(T_{t\alpha})_{t\in\mathbb{R}} is not ergodic. Under the assumption of the pointwise convergence of double Birkhoff ergodic average, we show that a Borel measure ν\nu on Rm\mathbb{R}^{m} is weakly equidistributed for an ergodic system X\textbf{X} if and only if ν(W(X)+β)=0\nu(W(\textbf{X})+\beta)=0 for every βRm\beta\in\mathbb{R}^{m}. Under the same assumption, we also show that ν\nu is weakly equidistributed for all ergodic measure preserving systems with Rm\mathbb{R}^{m}-actions if and only if ν()=0\nu(\ell)=0 for all hyperplanes \ell of Rm\mathbb{R}^{m}. Unlike many equidistribution results in literature whose proofs use methods from harmonic analysis, our results adopt a purely ergodic theoretic approach.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06916,
  title  = {Weak ergodic averages over dilated measures},
  author = {Wenbo Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06916},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages

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