Multiple ergodic averages for tempered functions

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Abstract: Following Frantzikinakis' approach on averages for Hardy field functions of different growth, we add to the topic by studying the corresponding averages for tempered functions, a class which also contains functions that oscillate and is in general more restrictive to deal with. Our main result is the existence and the explicit expression of the L2-norm limit of the aforementioned averages, which turns out, as in the Hardy field case, to be the "expected" one. The main ingredients are the use of, the now classical, PET induction (introduced by Bergelson), covering a more general case, namely a "nice" class of tempered functions (developed by Chu-Frantzikinakis-Host for polynomials and Frantzikinakis for Hardy field functions) and some equidistribution results on nilmanifolds (analogous to the ones of Frantzikinakis' for the Hardy field case).


In 1977, \textit{H. Furstenberg} [J. Anal. Math. 31, 204--256 (1977; Zbl 0347.28016)] provided a purely ergodic theoretical proof of Szemere'di's theorem: every subset of natural numbers with positive upper density contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions, by studying the \(L^2\)-norm behavior as \(N\to \infty\) of its multiple ergodic averages. Following \textit{N. Frantzikinakis}'s approach [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 367, No. 8, 5653--5692 (2015; Zbl 1351.37038); J. Anal. Math. 109, 353--395 (2009; Zbl 1186.37010); J. Anal. Math. 112, 79--135 (2010; Zbl 1211.37008)] on averages for Hardy field functions of different growth, the present author gives his contribution by studying the averages for tempered functions, a class which contains oscillating functions. The main result of the paper is the existence and the explicit expression of the \(L^2\)-norm limit of the aforementioned averages. The main ingredients are the use of the now classical PET induction, covering a more general case, namely a nice class of tempered functions and some equidistribution results on nilmanifolds.



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