Discrete Radon transforms and applications to ergodic theory (Q2373564)

The paper deals with \(L_p\) estimates for discrete operators in certain non-translation invariant settings and their applications to ergodic theorems for certain families of non-commuting operators. After a short description of the type of operators analyzed, the paper contains a systematic study of analogues of the operators in discrete settings which are not translation invariant. A special class of non-translation invariant operators, called ``quasi-translation'' invariant Radon transforms is considered. Three theorems are given and proved. In Section 2 the first two theorems are reduced to lemmas defined on a group called \(G_0^\#\) on polynomial mappings proved later in the paper. In Section 3 four lemmas on oscillatory integrals on \(L_2\) are proved. Section 4 is on maximal Radon transforms, its main result being two lemmas representing a qualitative \(L_2\) estimate and a restricted \(L^p\) estimate used to prove the lemma in Section 2. The third theorem (ergodic) is proved in Section 5. Section 6 contains the proof of another lemma on singular Radon transform. Section 7, self-contained is on real variable theory on the group \(G_0^\#\).