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Convergence of diagonal ergodic averages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2009

HENRY TOWSNER
HENRY TOWSNER*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA (email: henryt@cmu.edu)
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Tao has recently proved that if T1,…,Tl are commuting, invertible, measure-preserving transformations on a dynamical system, then for any L∞ functions f1,…,fl, the average (1/N)∑ n=0N−1∏ i≤lfi∘Tin converges in the L2 norm. Tao’s proof is unusual in that it translates the problem into a more complicated statement about the combinatorics of finite spaces by using the Furstenberg correspondence ‘backwards’. In this paper, we give an ergodic proof of this theorem, essentially a translation of Tao’s argument to the ergodic setting. In order to do this, we develop two new variations on the usual Furstenberg correspondence, both of which take recurrence-type statements in one dynamical system and give equivalent statements in a different dynamical system with desirable properties.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2009, pp. 1309 - 1326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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