Rates of divergence of non-conventional ergodic averages

DOI10.1017/S0143385709000054MaRDI QIDQ5188015zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anthony Quas, Máté Wierdl

Publication date 10 March 2010

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30)

Abstract: We study the rate of growth of ergodic sums along a sequence (a_n) of times: S_N f(x)=f(T^{a_1}x) + ... + f(T^{a_N}x). We characterize the maximal rate of growth of these ergodic sums and identify a number of sequences such as (2^n) that achieve this rate of growth. We also return to Khintchine's strong uniform distribution Conjecture which stated that the averages (1/N)(f(x)+f(2x mod 1)+...+f(Nx mod 1)) converge pointwise almost everywhere to int f for an integrable function on [0,1). We give an elementary counterexample to this conjecture, showing that divergence occurs at the maximal rate. In addition, we consider versions of Khintchine's conjecture in which the sequence of positive integers is replaced by the increasing enumeration of a subsemigroup of the positive integers. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on the semigroup for convergence in the modified conjecture.

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