Operator ergodic theory for one-parameter decomposable groups (Q554231)

A strongly continuous one-parameter group of operators \(\mathcal U=\{U_t\}_{t\in \mathbb R}\subset \mathcal B(X)\) is called decomposable provided that \(\{U_t\}_{t\in \mathbb R}\) has a ``unitary-like'' spectral decomposition \[ U_t=\lim_{a\to \infty}\int_{-a}^a e^{i\lambda t}\,dE(\lambda), \] where \(E(\cdot)\) is a spectral family in \(X\). The main result in the paper shows that, in the setting of arbitrary super-reflexive Banach spaces \(X\), a strongly continuous one-parameter group of operators \(\mathcal U=\{U_t\}_{t\in \mathbb R}\) is decomposable if and only if \(\mathcal U=\{U_t\}_{t\in \mathbb R}\) transfers to \(\mathcal B(X)\) the uniform boundedness of the classical Hilbert transform's rotated truncates, meaning that \[ \sup\left\{\bigg\|\int_{1/N\leq |t|\leq N}\frac{e^{ist}}{t}U_{-t} \,dt\bigg\|_{\mathcal B(X)}: s\in \mathbb R,\;N\in\mathbb N\right\}<\infty. \] This characterization uses some previous results by the author (see [``Spectral theory and operator ergodic theory on super-reflexive Banach spaces'', Stud. Math. 200, No.~3, 221--246 (2010; Zbl 1206.26015)]. While the UMD property appears as the connection between ``geometric properties'' of a Banach space with the vector-valued Hilbert transform, the results in the paper under review exhibit that the Hilbert transform also reaches all the super-reflexive Banach spaces in terms of characterizing decomposability for strongly continuous one-parameter groups of operators.