Let (X, μ) be a σ-finite measure space and let τ be an ergodic invertible measure preserving transformation. We study the a.e. convergence of the Cesàro-α ergodic averages associated with τ and the boundedness of the corresponding maximal operator in the setting of Lp,q(wdμ) spaces.

It is well-known that a probability measure $\mu$ on the circle $𝕋$ satisfies $\parallel {\mu }^n{*f-\int f\mathrm{d}m\parallel }_p\to 0$ for every $f\in L_p$, every (some) $p\in [1,\infty )$, if and only if $|\widehat{\mu }\left(n\right)|lt;1$ for every non-zero $n\in \mathbb{Z}$ ($\mu$ is strictly aperiodic). In this paper we study the a.e. convergence of ${\mu }^n*f$ for every $f\in L_p$ whenever $pgt;1$. We prove a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of the Fourier–Stieltjes coefficients of $\mu$, for the strong sweeping out property (existence of a Borel set $B$ with $lim\; sup{\mu }^n*1_B=1$ a.e. and $lim\; inf{\mu }^n*1_B=0$ a.e.). The results are extended to general compact Abelian groups $G$ with Haar...

We show that some results of Gaposhkin about a.e. convergence of series associated to a unitary operator U acting on L²(X,Σ,μ) (μ is a σ-finite measure) may be extended to the case where U is an invertible power-bounded operator acting on $L^p(X,\Sigma ,\mu )$, p > 1. The proofs make use of the spectral integration initiated by Berkson-Gillespie and, more specifically, of recent results of the author.

We extend the convergence method introduced in our works [8–10] for almost sure global well-posedness of Gibbs measure evolutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) and nonlinear wave (NLW) equations on the unit ball in ${ℝ}^d$ to the case of the three dimensional NLS. This is the first probabilistic global well-posedness result for NLS with supercritical data on the unit ball in ${ℝ}^3$. The initial data is taken as a Gaussian random process lying in the support of the Gibbs measure associated to the equation,...

For a sequence of dependent random variables ${\left(X_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ we consider a large class of summability methods defined by R. Jajte in [jaj] as follows: For a pair of real-valued nonnegative functions g,h: ℝ⁺ → ℝ⁺ we define a sequence of “weighted averages” $1/g\left(n\right){\sum }_{k=1}^n\left(X_k\right)/h\left(k\right)$, where g and h satisfy some mild conditions. We investigate the almost sure behavior of such transformations. We also take a close look at the connection between the method of summation (that is the pair of functions (g,h)) and the coefficients that measure...

We also prove a long time existence result; more precisely we prove that for fixed $T>0$ there exists a set ${\Sigma }_T$, $\mathbb{P}\left({\Sigma }_T\right)>0$ such that any data ${\phi }^{\omega }\left(x\right)\in H^{\gamma }\left({𝕋}^3\right),\gamma <1,\omega \in {\Sigma }_T$, evolves up to time $T$ into a solution $u\left(t\right)$ with $u\left(t\right)-e^{it\Delta }{\phi }^{\omega }\in C([0,T];H^s\left({𝕋}^3\right))$, $s=s\left(\gamma \right)>1$. In particular we find a nontrivial set of data which gives rise to long time solutions below the critical space $H^1\left({𝕋}^3\right)$, that is in the supercritical scaling regime.

We study the generalized random Fibonacci sequences defined by their first non-negative terms and for n≥1, Fn+2=λFn+1±Fn (linear case) and ̃Fn+2=|λ̃Fn+1±̃Fn| (non-linear case), where each ± sign is independent and either + with probability p or − with probability 1−p (0&lt;p≤1). Our main result is that, when λ is of the form λk=2cos(π/k) for some integer k≥3, the exponential growth of Fn for 0&lt;p≤1, and of ̃Fn for 1/k&lt;p≤1, is almost surely positive and given by ∫0∞log x dνk, ρ(x),...

Moore [Fund. Math. 220 (2013)] characterizes the amenability of the automorphism groups of countable ultrahomogeneous structures by a Ramsey-type property. We extend this result to the automorphism groups of metric Fraïssé structures, which encompass all Polish groups. As an application, we prove that amenability is a $G_{\delta }$ condition.

We prove that every linear-activity automaton group is amenable. The proof is based on showing that a random walk on a specially constructed degree 1 automaton group – the mother group – has asymptotic entropy 0. Our result answers an open question by Nekrashevych in the Kourovka notebook, and gives a partial answer to a question of Sidki.

We show that the amalgamated free products of two free groups over a cyclic subgroup admit amenable, faithful and transitive actions on infinite countable sets. This work generalizes the results on such actions for doubles of free group on two generators.

Following Douady-Hubbard and Bartholdi-Nekrashevych, we give an algebraic formulation of Thurston’s characterization of rational functions. The techniques developed are applied to the analysis of the dynamics on the set of free homotopy classes of simple closed curves induced by a rational function. The resulting finiteness results yield new information on the global dynamics of the pullback map on Teichmüller space used in the proof of the characterization theorem.

Given a measure-preserving transformation T of a probability space (X,ℬ,μ) and a finite measurable partition ℙ of X, we show how to construct an Alpern tower of any height whose base is independent of the partition ℙ. That is, given N ∈ ℕ, there exists a Rokhlin tower of height N, with base B and error set E, such that B is independent of ℙ, and TE ⊂ B.