Non-homogeneous equilibrium states and convergence speeds of averaging operators (Q4500435)

The authors introduce non-homogeneous equilibrium states which include the classical equilibrium states for subshifts of finite type, Riesz products and \(G\)-measures. The existence and uniqueness of these equilibrium states is proved. The main result is the following: Theorem. Let \(G=\{g_n\}_{n\geq 1}\) be a normalized sequence of potentials defined on a transitive symbolic space \(X_A\). There exists a constant \(0<\gamma<1\) such that for any \(f\in C(X_A)\), any \(N\geq 1\) and any choice \(1\leq n_0< n_1<\dots<n_k\leq N\) we have \[ \|P_N\|_{\infty}\leq \text{var}_{n_0}(f)+\|f\|_{\infty} \Biggl[\sum_{j=0}^{k-1}V_{n_j,n_{j+1}}+\gamma^k \Biggr], \] where \(P_N\) are the averaging operators associated with \(G\), \(var_{n}(f)\) is the variation of a function \(f\) and \(V_{n,m}\) are the constants defined by \(G\). This theorem is applied to the asymptotic behavior of powers of transfer operators defined on a subshift of finite type. As a consequence of this result, the central limit theorem for the process \(f(T^nx)\) with \(\text{var}_n(f)=O(n^{-1-\varepsilon})\) \((\varepsilon>0)\) relative to the Gibbs measure of a potential \(\varphi\) with \(\text{var}_n(\varphi)=O(n^{-2-\varepsilon})\) is proved. Let \(\{\alpha_n\}\) be a sequence of complex numbers and let \(\{f_n\}\) be a sequence of \(\mu\)-integrable functions on \(X_A\), where \(\mu\) is the non-homogeneous equilibrium state. The authors apply the above theorem to the study of almost everywhere convergence of the following series: \[ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\alpha_n \Biggl[f_n(x)-\int f_n(y) d\mu(y) \Biggr]. \] This result allows to compute the Hausdorff dimension of the non-homogeneous equilibrium state.