Tauberian theorems and spectral theory in topological vector spaces (Q2845569)

The aim of this paper is to develop enough spectral theory of integrable group actions on locally convex vector spaces to prove Tauberian theorems, which are applicable to ergodic theory. The bulk of this paper consists in using spectral theory to derive dynamical properties of the action of a locally compact abelian group \(G\) on the topological vector space \(E\), from harmonic analytic considerations on the group itself. The author starts with an analysis of various spectral subspaces induced by the action of the group. This is applied to analyse the spectral theory of operators on the space, generated by measures on the group. These results are applied to derive general Tauberian theorems that apply to arbitrary locally compact abelian groups acting on a large class of locally convex vector spaces which includes Fréchet spaces. In Section 6, it is shown how from the Tauberian results, one can quickly deduce mean ergodic theorems for general locally compact abelian group acting on Fréchet spaces.