A dynamical interpretation of the global canonical height on an elliptic curve.
A group automorphism is a factor of a direct product of a zero entropy automorphism and a Bernoulli automorphism
A ratio ergodic theorem for multiparameter non-singular actions
We prove a ratio ergodic theorem for non-singular free and actions, along balls in an arbitrary norm. Using a Chacon–Ornstein type lemma the proof is reduced to a statement about the amount of mass of a probability measure that can concentrate on (thickened) boundaries of balls in . The proof relies on geometric properties of norms, including the Besicovitch covering lemma and the fact that boundaries of balls have lower dimension than the ambient space. We also show that for general group...
A Simple Proof of Borel's Density Theorem.
Action moyennable d'un groupe localement compact sur une algèbre de von Neumann II.
Algebraic Hulls and the Folner Property.
Averages of unitary representations and weak mixing of random walks
Let S be a locally compact (σ-compact) group or semigroup, and let T(t) be a continuous representation of S by contractions in a Banach space X. For a regular probability μ on S, we study the convergence of the powers of the μ-average Ux = ʃ T(t)xdμ(t). Our main results for random walks on a group G are: (i) The following are equivalent for an adapted regular probability on G: μ is strictly aperiodic; converges weakly for every continuous unitary representation of G; U is weakly mixing for any...