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On a new form of the ergodic theorem for the unit sphere with application to spectral theory

✍ Scribed by Liangpan Li; Lan Tang


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
133 KB
Volume
281
Category
Article
ISSN
0025-584X

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Abstract

Let 1 ≤ p < ∞ and let T be an ergodic measure‐preserving transformation of the finite measure space (X, μ). The classical L^p^ ergodic theorem of von Neumann asserts that for any f ϵ L^p^ (X, μ),

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When X = 𝕊^n^ (the unit sphere in ℝ^n +1^) and μ is the standard area measure of 𝕊^n^ , we establish a new form of the ergodic theorem. That is, we can replace the sequence of finite subsets of O(n + 1) (the orthogonal transformation group of ℝ^n +1^) with a sequence of some fixed finite subsets of O(n + 1) which are independent of any measure‐preserving transformation, such that for any f ϵ L^p^ (𝕊^n^ , μ),

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As an application, we can completely determine the point spectrum of the Laplace operator in L^p^ (ℝ^n^ ) (1 ≤ p < ∞, n ≥ 1) spaces. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)