Ergodic theorems for coset spaces (Q1661295)

The authors study the validity of the Mean Ergodic Theorem along left Følner sequences in a countable amenable group \(G\). Although the Weak Ergodic Theorem always holds along any left Følner sequence in \(G\), the authors provide examples where the Mean Ergodic Theorem fails (see Theorem 1.5). In the case when a unitary representation of a countable amenable group is induced from a unitary representation of a ``sufficiently thin'' subgroup, it is shown that the Mean Ergodic Theorem holds for the induced representation along any left Følner sequence. Also, it is shown that every countable (infinite) amenable group \(L\) embeds into a countable (not necessarily amenable) group \(G\) which admits a unitary representation with the property that for any left Følner sequence \((F_n)\) in \(L\), there exists a sequence \((s_n)\) in \(G\) such that the Mean (but not the Weak) Ergodic Theorem fails in a rather strong sense along the (right-translated) sequence \((F_ns_n)\) in \(G\). Finally, the authors provide examples of countable (not necessarily amenable) groups \(G\) with proper, infinite-index subgroups \(H\), so that the Pointwise Ergodic Theorem holds for averages along any strictly increasing and nested sequence of finite subsets of the coset \(G/H\).