Equidistribution, ergodicity and irreducibility associated with Gibbs measures (Q2361119)

A quasi-invariant action (that is, a measurable action sending null sets to null sets) of a locally compact group \(G\) on a measure space induces a unitary representation (the quasi-regular representation) of \(G\) on \(L^2\) of interest because it carries information about ergodic and mixing properties of the action. \textit{H. Furstenberg} [Ann. Math. (2) 77, 335--386 (1963; Zbl 0192.12704)] showed that if \(G\) is a semi-simple Lie group and \(P\) is a minimal parabolic subgroup then the space \(G/P\) with Haar measure can be realized as the Poisson boundary of a random walk on a lattice in \(G\), and this context gives rise to a conjecture arising from work of \textit{U. Bader} and \textit{R. Muchnik} [J. Mod. Dyn. 5, No. 1, 49--69 (2011; Zbl 1259.46051)], which is stated here as follows. For a locally compact group \(G\) and a `spread-out' measure \(\mu\) on \(G\) the quasi-regular representation associated to a \(\mu\)-boundary of \(G\) is irreducible. Here some results of Bader and Muchnik on equidistribution theorems for certain operator-valued measures associated to Patterson-Sullivan measures are generalized to the setting of the action of a co-compact discrete subgroup of isometries of a pinched negatively curved manifold on its boundary when endowed with the Gibbs streams measure class constructed as a weighted analogue of the Patterson-Sullivan construction.