A power-bounded operator T satisfying $\sup _n n\lVert T^n-T^{n+1}\rVert <\infty $ is a Ritt operator. For such operators, we study the generalized square function $Q_{\alpha ,s,r}^Tf=(\sum _n n^{\alpha } |T^n(I-T)^rf|^s)^{1/s}$. It is known that when T is a positive contraction and a Ritt operator on $L^p$, $1<p<\infty $, then for any integer $r\ge 1$, the square function $Q_{2r-1,2,r}^Tf$ defines a bounded operator [17] on $L^p$. In this work, we extend the theory to the endpoint case $p=1$. We show that if T is a Ritt operator on $L^1$, then the generalized square function $Q_{\alpha ,s,r}^Tf $ is bounded on $L^1$ whenever $\alpha +1<sr$. In the particular setting where T is a convolution operator of the form $T_{\mu }=\sum _k \mu (k) U^kf$, with $\mu $ a probability measure on $\mathbb Z$ and U the composition operator induced by an invertible measure-preserving transformation, we provide sufficient conditions on $\mu $ under which $Q_{2r-1,2,r}^{T_{\mu }}f$ is of weak type $(1,1)$, for $r>0$. We also establish bounds for variational and oscillation norms, $\lVert n^{\beta } T^n(1-T)^r\rVert _{v(s)}$ and $\lVert n^{\beta } T^n(1-T)^r\rVert _{o(s)}$, for Ritt operators, highlighting endpoint behavior.

We study a discrete process on planar convex bodies in which, at each step, a body is replaced by a weighted Minkowski average of itself and its rotation by a fixed angle. Up to translation and uniform scaling, this produces a rigid averaging dynamical system. We give a complete classification of the limit shapes. If the angle is an irrational multiple of $2\pi $, the iterates converge to a disk. If the angle is rational, they converge to the average of finitely many rotated copies of the initial body. We also obtain sharp convergence rates. In the rational case, the decay is uniform and exponential with an explicit constant depending only on the weight and the denominator of the angle. For irrational angles, we prove quantitative rates under a mild number-theoretic condition that holds for almost every angle: low regularity inputs have polynomial decay up to a logarithmic factor, while real analytic inputs have stretched exponential decay. For angles with bounded continued fraction coefficients, we give matching lower bounds along subsequences. These results describe the global attractors of the dynamics and indicate the absence of chaotic behaviour.

We strengthen the maximal ergodic theorem for actions of groups of polynomial growth to a form involving jump quantity, which is the sharpest result among the family of variational or maximal ergodic theorems. As two applications, we first obtain the upcrossing inequalities with exponential decay of ergodic averages and then provide an explicit bound on the convergence rate such that the ergodic averages with strongly continuous regular group actions are metastable (or locally stable) on a large interval. Before exploiting the transference techniques, we actually obtain a stronger result—the jump estimates on a metric space with a measure not necessarily doubling. The ideas or techniques involve martingale theory, non-doubling Calderón–Zygmund theory, almost orthogonality argument, and some delicate geometric argument involving the balls and the cubes on a group equipped with a not necessarily doubling measure.

Recently, the Kac formula for the conditional expectation of the first recurrence time of a conditionally ergodic conditional expectation preserving system was established in the measure-free setting of vector lattices (Riesz spaces). We now give a formulation of the Kakutani–Rokhlin decomposition for conditionally ergodic systems in terms of components of weak order units in a vector lattice. In addition, we prove that every aperiodic conditional expectation preserving system can be approximated by a periodic system.

We study the quasi-ergodicity of compact strong Feller semigroups $U_t$, $t> 0$, on $L^2(M,\mu )$; we assume that M is a locally compact Polish space equipped with a locally finite Borel measue $\mu $. The operators $U_t$ are ultracontractive and positivity preserving, but not necessarily self-adjoint or normal. We are mainly interested in those cases where the measure $\mu $ is infinite and the semigroup is not intrinsically ultracontractive. We relate quasi-ergodicity on $L^p(M,\mu )$ and uniqueness of the quasi-stationary measure with the finiteness of the heat content of the semigroup (for large values of t) and with the progressive uniform ground state domination property. The latter property is equivalent to a variant of quasi-ergodicity which progressively propagates in space as $t \uparrow \infty $; the propagation rate is determined by the decay of . We discuss several applications and illustrate our results with examples. This includes a complete description of quasi-ergodicity for a large class of semigroups corresponding to non-local Schrödinger operators with confining potentials.

Given a probability space $(X,\mu )$, a square integrable function f on such space and a (unilateral or bilateral) shift operator T, we prove under suitable assumptions that the ergodic means $N^{-1}\sum _{n=0}^{N-1} T^nf$ converge pointwise almost everywhere to zero with a speed of convergence which, up to a small logarithmic transgression, is essentially of the order of $N^{-1/2}$. We also provide a few applications of our results, especially in the case of shifts associated with toral endomorphisms.

We consider metrizable ergodic topological dynamical systems over locally compact, $\sigma $-compact abelian groups. We study pure point spectrum via suitable notions of almost periodicity for the points of the dynamical system. More specifically, we characterize pure point spectrum via mean almost periodicity of generic points. We then go on and show how Besicovitch almost periodic points determine both eigenfunctions and the measure in this case. After this, we characterize those systems arising from Weyl almost periodic points and use this to characterize weak and Bohr almost periodic systems. Finally, we consider applications to aperiodic order.

We consider a robust class of random non-uniformly expanding local homeomorphisms and Hölder continuous potentials with small variation. For each element of this class we develop the thermodynamical formalism and prove the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium states among non-uniformly expanding measures. Moreover, we show that these equilibrium states and the random topological pressure vary continuously in this setting.

In the present paper, we deal with asymptotical stability of Markov operators acting on abstract state spaces (i.e. an ordered Banach space, where the norm has an additivity property on the cone of positive elements). Basically, we are interested in the rate of convergence when a Markov operator T satisfies the uniform P-ergodicity, i.e. $\|T^n-P\|\to 0$, here P is a projection. We have showed that T is uniformly P-ergodic if and only if $\|T^n-P\|\leq C\beta^n$, $0<\beta<1$. In this paper, we prove that such a β is characterized by the spectral radius of T − P. Moreover, we give Deoblin’s kind of conditions for the uniform P-ergodicity of Markov operators.

We consider equivariant continuous families of discrete one-dimensional operators over arbitrary dynamical systems. We introduce the concept of a pseudo-ergodic element of a dynamical system. We then show that all operators associated to pseudo-ergodic elements have the same spectrum and that this spectrum agrees with their essential spectrum. As a consequence we obtain that the spectrum is constant and agrees with the essential spectrum for all elements in the dynamical system if minimality holds.

The classical spaces ℓp+, 1 ≤ p < ∞, and L p−, 1<p ≤ ∞, are countably normed, reflexive Fréchet spaces in which the Cesàro operator C acts continuously. A detailed investigation is made of various operator theoretic properties of C (e.g., spectrum, point spectrum, mean ergodicity) as well as certain aspects concerning the dynamics of C (e.g., hypercyclic, supercyclic, chaos). This complements the results of [3, 4], where C was studied in the spaces ℂℕ, L p loc(ℝ+) for 1 < p < ∞ and C(ℝ+), which belong to a very different collection of Fréchet spaces, called quojections; these are automatically Banach spaces whenever they admit a continuous norm.

The Yang-Baxter-like matrix equation AXA = XAX is reconsidered, where A is any complex square matrix. A collection of spectral solutions for the unknown square matrix X were previously found. When A is diagonalisable, by applying the mean ergodic theorem we propose numerical methods to calculate those solutions.

We investigate the relationship between the peripheral spectrum of a positive operator T on a Banach lattice E and the peripheral spectrum of the operators S dominated by T, that is, ]Sx] ≤ T]x] for all x ε E. This can be applied to obtain inheritance results for asymptotic properties of dominated operators.

We consider random dynamical systems with randomly chosen jumps on infinite-dimensional spaces. The choice of deterministic dynamical systems and jumps depends on a position. The system generalizes dynamical systems corresponding to learning systems, Poisson driven stochastic differential equations, iterated function system with infinite family of transformations and random evolutions. We will show that distributions which describe the dynamics of this system converge to an invariant distribution. We use recent results concerning asymptotic stability of Markov operators on infinite-dimensional spaces obtained by T. Szarek.

A discrete group $G$ is called identity excluding if the only irreducible unitary representation of $G$ which weakly contains the 1-dimensional identity representation is the 1-dimensional identity representation itself. Given a unitary representation $\pi $ of $G$ and a probability measure $\mu $ on $G$ , let ${{P}_{\mu }}$ denote the $\mu $ -average $\int{\pi (g)\mu (dg)}$ . The goal of this article is twofold: (1) to study the asymptotic behaviour of the powers $P_{\mu }^{n}$ , and (2) to provide a characterization of countable amenable identity excluding groups. We prove that for every adapted probability measure $\mu $ on an identity excluding group and every unitary representation $\pi $ there exists and orthogonal projection ${{E}_{\mu }}$ onto a $\pi $ -invariant subspace such that $s-{{\lim }_{n\to \infty }}\,(P_{\mu }^{n}\,-\,\pi {{(a)}^{n}}\,{{E}_{\mu }})\,\,=\,0$ for every $a\,\in $ supp $\mu $ . This also remains true for suitably defined identity excluding locally compact groups. We show that the class of countable amenable identity excluding groups coincides with the class of $\text{FC}$ -hypercentral groups; in the finitely generated case this is precisely the class of groups of polynomial growth. We also establish that every adapted random walk on a countable amenable identity excluding group is ergodic.

We prove that Ornstein transformations are almost surely totally ergodic provided only that the cutting parameter is not bounded. We thus obtain a larger class of Ornstein transformations with the mixing property.

Generalized Riesz products similar to the type which arise as the spectral measure for a rank-one transformation are studied. A condition for the mutual singularity of two such measures is given. As an application, a probability space of transformations is presented in which almost all transformations are singular with respect to Lebesgue measure.

Let be a semigroup of measure preserving transformations on a measure space (Ω, ℱ, μ). The main result of the paper is the proof of a.e. convergence for the moving averages where {FIn} is a superadditive process and {In} is a sequence of cubes in satisfying the "cone-condition". The identification of the limit is given. A moving local theorem is also proved.

In this paper, several characterizations are given of the group of eigenvalues of a rank one transformation. One of these is intimately related to the corresponding expression for the maximal spectral type of a rank one transformation given in an earlier paper.

In this paper it is shown that the maximal spectral type of a general rank one transformation is given by a kind of generalized Riesz product, with possibly some discrete measure.