We give an elementary proof for the uniqueness of absolutely continuous invariant measures for expanding random dynamical systems and study their mixing properties.

The rate of growth of an operator T satisfying the mean ergodic theorem (MET) cannot be faster than linear. It was recently shown (Kornfeld-Kosek, Colloq. Math. 98 (2003)) that for every γ > 0, there are positive L¹[0,1] operators T satisfying MET with $li{m}_{n\to \infty }\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|/n^{1-\gamma }=\infty$. In the class of positive L¹ operators this is the most one can hope for in the sense that for every such operator T, there exists a γ₀ > 0 such that $limsup\left|\right|Tⁿ\left|\right|/n^{1-\gamma ₀}=0.$ In this note we construct an example of a nonpositive L¹ operator with the highest possible...

Soit $\mathbf{G}$ un groupe défini sur les rationnels, simplement connexe, $\mathbb{Q}$-quasisimple et compact sur $ℝ$. On étudie des suites de sous-ensembles des points rationnels de $\mathbf{G}$ définis par des conditions sur leur projection dans le groupe des adèles finies de $\mathbf{G}$. Nous montrons dans ce cadre un résultat d’équirépartition vers la probabilité de Haar sur le groupe des points réels. On utilise pour cela des propriétés de mélange de l’action du groupe des points adéliques $\mathbf{G}\left(𝔸\right)$ sur l’espace $L^2(\mathbf{G}\left(𝔸\right)/\mathbf{G}\left(\mathbb{Q}\right))$. Pour illustrer ce résultat,...

This article is concerned with the study of the discrete version of generalized ergodic Calderón-Zygmund singular operators. It is shown that such discrete ergodic singular operators for a class of superadditive processes, namely, bounded symmetric admissible processes relative to measure preserving transformations, are weak (1,1). From this maximal inequality, a.e. existence of the discrete ergodic singular transform is obtained for such superadditive processes. This generalizes the well-known...

We establish new exponential inequalities for partial sums of random fields. Next, using classical chaining arguments, we give sufficient conditions for partial sum processes indexed by large classes of sets to converge to a set-indexed brownian motion. For stationary fields of bounded random variables, the condition is expressed in terms of a series of conditional expectations. For non-uniform $\phi$-mixing random fields, we require both finite fourth moments and an algebraic decay of the mixing coefficients....

We establish new exponential inequalities for partial sums of random fields. Next, using classical chaining arguments, we give sufficient conditions for partial sum processes indexed by large classes of sets to converge to a set-indexed Brownian motion. For stationary fields of bounded random variables, the condition is expressed in terms of a series of conditional expectations. For non-uniform ϕ-mixing random fields, we require both finite fourth moments and an algebraic decay of the mixing coefficients. ...

We study the dynamics of the Teichmüller flow in the moduli space of abelian differentials (and more generally, its restriction to any connected component of a stratum). We show that the (Masur-Veech) absolutely continuous invariant probability measure is exponentially mixing for the class of Hölder observables. A geometric consequence is that the $SL(2,ℝ)$ action in the moduli space has a spectral gap.

We study a generalized notion of a homogeneous skew-product extension of a probability-preserving system in which the homogeneous space fibres are allowed to vary over the ergodic decomposition of the base. The construction of such extensions rests on a simple notion of 'direct integral' for a 'measurable family' of homogeneous spaces, which has a number of precedents in older literature. The main contribution of the present paper is the systematic development of a formalism for handling such extensions,...

We introduce the concept of an extreme relation for a topological flow as an analogue of the extreme measurable partition for a measure-preserving transformation considered by Rokhlin and Sinai, and we show that every topological flow has such a relation for any invariant measure. From this result, it follows, among other things, that any deterministic flow has zero topological entropy and any flow which is a K-system with respect to an invariant measure with full support is a topological K-flow....