The entangled ergodic theorem in the almost periodic case (Q1044541)

The aim of the present paper is to study and prove that the entangled ergodic theorem holds true in the almost periodic case. Namely the multiple Cesàro mean \[ {1\over N^k} \sum^{N-1}_{n_1,n_2,\dots, n_k= 0} U^{n_{\alpha(1)}} A_1 U^{n_{\alpha(2)}}\cdots U^{n_{\alpha(m- 1)}} A_{m-1} U^{n_{\alpha(m)}}, \] where \(U\) is a unitary operator on the Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\), \(\alpha:\{1,\dots, m\}\to \{1,\dots, m\}\), for \(m\geq k\), a partition of the set \(\{1,\dots,m\}\) in \(k\) parts and \(A_1,\dots, A_{m-1}\) being bounded operators acting on \({\mathcal H}\) converges in the strong operator topology for all the pair partitions \(\alpha\), provided the dynamics generated by the unitary \(U\) on the Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\) is almost periodic. Furthermore the author managed to apply the present result in order to obtain the convergence of the Cesàro mean of several multiple correlations for \(C^*\)-dynamical systems such that the unitary implementing the dynamics in the GNS Hilbert space is almost periodic.