The Blum-Hanson property for \(\mathcal{C}(K)\) spaces (Q5963073)

Recall that the following result is usually referred to as the Blum-Hanson theorem: if \(T\) is a linear operator on a Hilbert space \(H\) with \(\|T\|\leq 1\), and if \(x \in H\) is such that \(T^{n} \to 0\) weakly as \(n \to \infty\), then the sequence \((T^{n}x)\) is strongly mixing, which means that every subsequence of \((T^{n}x)\) converges to \(0\) in the Cesàro sense, see [\textit{J. R. Blum} and \textit{D. L. Hanson}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 66, 308--311 (1960; Zbl 0096.09005)] and also [\textit{L. Jones} and \textit{V. Kuftinec}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 30, 202--203 (1971; Zbl 0218.28012)]. Accordingly, a Banach space \(X\) is said to have the Blum-Hanson property if the Blum-Hanson theorem holds true on \(X\); that is, if \(T\) is a linear operator on \(X\) such that \(\|T\|\leq 1\), then every weakly null \(T\)-orbit is strongly mixing. In the paper under review, the authors address the Blum-Hanson property for \(C(K)\) spaces. Thus, they prove that, if \(K\) is a compact metrizable space, then \(C(K)\) has the Blum-Hanson property if and only if \(K\) has finitely many accumulation points. Moreover, they show that the space \(C(\beta \mathbb N)\) does not have the Blum-Hanson property, where \(\beta \mathbb N\) is the Stone-Čech compactification of \(\mathbb N\).