We study different types of asymptotic behaviour in the set of (infinite dimensional) nonhomogeneous chains of stochastic operators acting on L¹(μ) spaces. In order to examine its structure we consider different norm and strong operator topologies. To describe the nature of the set of nonhomogeneous chains of Markov operators with a particular limit behaviour we use the category theorem of Baire. We show that the geometric structure of the set of those stochastic operators which have asymptotically...

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a matrix of probabilities ${\left[p_{ik}\right]}_{i,k=1}^N$ such that a system of randomly chosen transformations ${\Pi }_k$, k = 1,...,N, with probabilities $p_{ik}$ is asymptotically stable.

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; $U^n$ converges weakly for every continuous unitary representation of G; U is weakly mixing for any...

The Weyl criterion for uniform distribution of a sequence has an especially simple form in compact abelian groups. The authors use this and the structure of compact monothetic groups and semigroups to generalise the convergence, under certain compactness conditions, of the operator averages: $n^{-1}{\sum }_{k=1}^n{T}^k\to P\left(n\to \infty \right)$ where P is a projection associated with the eigenvalue one of T.