Ergodic theorems for coset spaces

DOI10.1007/S11854-018-0032-0MaRDI QIDQ1661295zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Björklund, Alexander Fish

Publication date 16 August 2018

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6692, http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-6208-5

zbMATH Keywords

countable amenable group \(G\)Følner sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30)

Abstract: We study in this paper the validity of the mean ergodic theorem along emph{left} Fo lner sequences in a countable amenable group $G$. Although the emph{weak} ergodic theorem always holds along emph{any} left Fo lner sequence in $G$, we provide examples where the emph{mean} ergodic theorem fails in quite dramatic ways. On the other hand, if $G$ does not admit any ICC quotients, e.g. if $G$ is virtually nilpotent, then we prove that the mean ergodic theorem does indeed hold along emph{any} left Fo lner sequence. In the case when a unitary representation of a countable amenable group is induced from a unitary representation of a "sufficiently thin" subgroup, we prove that the mean ergodic theorem holds along any left Fo lner sequence for this representation. Furthermore, we show that every countable (infinite) amenable group $L$ embeds into a countable group $G$ which admits a unitary representation with the property that for any left Fo lner sequence $(F_n)$ in $L$, there exists a sequence $(s_n)$ in $G$ such that the mean (but emph{not} the weak) ergodic theorem fails for this representation along the sequence $(F_n{s}_n)$. Finally, we provide examples of countable (not necessarily amenable) groups $G$ with proper, infinite-index subgroups $H$, so that the emph{pointwise} ergodic theorem holds for averages along emph{any} strictly increasing and nested sequence of finite subsets of the coset $G/H$.

Review text

The authors study the validity of the Mean Ergodic Theorem along left Følner sequences in a countable amenable group \(G\). Although the Weak Ergodic Theorem always holds along any left Følner sequence in \(G\), the authors provide examples where the Mean Ergodic Theorem fails (see Theorem 1.5). In the case when a unitary representation of a countable amenable group is induced from a unitary representation of a ``sufficiently thin subgroup, it is shown that the Mean Ergodic Theorem holds for the induced representation along any left Følner sequence. Also, it is shown that every countable (infinite) amenable group \(L\) embeds into a countable (not necessarily amenable) group \(G\) which admits a unitary representation with the property that for any left Følner sequence \((F_n)\) in \(L\), there exists a sequence \((s_n)\) in \(G\) such that the Mean (but not the Weak) Ergodic Theorem fails in a rather strong sense along the (right-translated) sequence \((F_ns_n)\) in \(G\). Finally, the authors provide examples of countable (not necessarily amenable) groups \(G\) with proper, infinite-index subgroups \(H\), so that the Pointwise Ergodic Theorem holds for averages along any strictly increasing and nested sequence of finite subsets of the coset \(G/H\).

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