Pointwise ergodic theorems for non-conventional bilinear polynomial averages (Q2171411)

The authors establish convergence in norm and pointwise almost everywhere for the non-conventional bilinear polynomial ergodic averages \[\frac1n \sum_{k=1}^n f(T^k x) g(T^{p(k)}x)\] for a \(\sigma\)-finite measure-preserving map \(T\) and a polynomial \(p(k)\) of degree \(d\ge2\). The methods combine techniques from harmonic analysis with the recent inverse theorems of \textit{S. Peluse} and \textit{S. Prendiville} [``Quantitative bounds in the nonlinear Roth theorem'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1903.02592}] in additive combinatorics. At large scales, the harmonic analysis of the adelic integers plays a role too.