We study spectral properties of Anzai skew products $T_{\phi }:²\to ²$ defined by $T_{\phi }(z,\omega )=(e^{2\pi i\alpha }z,\phi \left(z\right)\omega )$, where α is irrational and φ: → is a measurable cocycle. Precisely, we deal with the case where φ is piecewise absolutely continuous such that the sum of all jumps of φ equals zero. It is shown that the simple continuous singular spectrum of $T_{\phi }$ on the orthocomplement of the space of functions depending only on the first variable is a “typical” property in the above-mentioned class of cocycles, if α admits a sufficiently fast approximation....

In this paper we dramatically expand the domain of known stably ergodic, partially hyperbolic dynamical systems. For example, all partially hyperbolic affine diffeomorphisms of compact homogeneous spaces which have the accessibility property are stably ergodic. Our main tools are the new concepts – julienne density point and julienne quasi-conformality of the stable and unstable holonomy maps. Julienne quasi-conformal holonomy maps preserve all julienne density points.

The classical Banach principle is an essential tool for the investigation of ergodic properties of Cesàro subsequences. The aim of this work is to extend the Banach principle to the case of stochastic convergence in operator algebras. We start by establishing a sufficient condition for stochastic convergence (stochastic Banach principle). Then we prove stochastic convergence for bounded Besicovitch sequences, and as a consequence for uniform subsequences.

We show that the set of those Markov semigroups on the Schatten class ₁ such that in the strong operator topology $li{m}_{t\to \infty }T\left(t\right)=Q$, where Q is a one-dimensional projection, form a meager subset of all Markov semigroups.

We call a sequence $\left(T_n\right)$ of measure preserving transformations strongly mixing if $P(T_n^{-1}A\cap B)$ tends to $P\left(A\right)P\left(B\right)$ for arbitrary measurable $A$, $B$. We investigate whether one can pass to a suitable subsequence $\left(T_{n_k}\right)$ such that $\frac{1}{K}{\sum }_{k=1}^{K}f\left(T_{n_k}\right)⟶\int f\mathrm{d}P$ almost surely for all (or “many”) integrable $f$.

Let T be a positive linear contraction of $L_1$ of a σ-finite measure space (X,Σ,μ) which overlaps supports. In general, T need not be completely mixing, but it is in the following cases: (i) T is the Frobenius-Perron operator of a non-singular transformation ϕ (in which case complete mixing is equivalent to exactness of ϕ). (ii) T is a Harris recurrent operator. (iii) T is a convolution operator on a compact group. (iv) T is a convolution operator on a LCA group.

We consider subshifts arising from primitive substitutions, which are known to be uniquely ergodic dynamical systems. In order to precise this point, we introduce a symbolic notion of discrepancy. We show how the distribution of such a subshift is in part ruled by the spectrum of the incidence matrices associated with the underlying substitution. We also give some applications of these results in connection with the spectral study of substitutive dynamical systems.