Maximal ergodic theorems and applications to Riemannian geometry

We prove new ergodic theorems in the context of infinite ergodic theory, and give some applications to Riemannian and Kähler manifolds without conjugate points. One of the consequences of these ideas is that a complete manifold without conjugate points has nonpositive integral of the infimum of Ricci curvatures, whenever this integral makes sense. We also show that a complete Kähler manifold with nonnegative holomorphic curvature is flat if it has no conjugate points.     

The Mean-value of Meromorphic Functions with Respect to a Generalized Boolean Transformation

A formula for the mean-value distribution of certain meromorphic functions on a vertical line s = σ +iR under a generalized Boolean transformation, called rational Boolean transformation from R into itself, is derived using Birkhoff 's ergodic theorem. This formula is represented as a computable integral. Using the Cauchy's integral theorem, values of this integral corresponding to various possible cases are explicitly computed.     

Graph-theoretic and algebraic characterizations of some Markov processes

An algebraic decidable condition for a stationary Markov chain to consist of a single ergodic set, and a graph-theoretic decidable condition for a stationary Markov chain to consist of a single ergodic noncyclic set are formulated. In the third part of the paper a graph-theoretic condition for a nonstationary Markov chain to have the weakly-ergodic property is given. The paper is based on part of the author’s work towards the D. Sc. degree.     

广生灭过程的遍历性及平稳分布

文献[1]研究了广生灭过程的向上积分型随机泛函，得到了广生灭过程的若干数字特征以及常返的充要条件，该文讨论广生灭过程向下积分型随机泛函，给出了广生灭过程遍历的充要条件以及平均返回时间的计算公式，并在遍历的条件下求出了广生灭过程的平稳分布．     

A note on limit distributions of integral functions of on an ergodic Markov process

A theorem on an asymptotic behavior of integral functional of a nonperiodic ergodic Markov process is proved.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 1267–1269, September, 1991.     

Almost sure stability of linear stochastic differential equations with jumps

 Under the nondegenerate condition as in the diffusion case, see [14, 21, 6], the linear stochastic jump-diffusion process projected on the unit sphere is a strong Feller process and has a unique invariant measure which is also ergodic using the relation between the transition probabilities of jump-diffusions and the corresponding diffusions due to [22]. The unique deterministic Lyapunov exponent can be represented by the Furstenberg-Khas'minskii formula as an integral over the sphere or the projective space with respect to the ergodic invariant measure so that the almost sure asymptotic stability of linear stochastic systems with jumps depends on its sign. The critical case of zero Lyapunov exponent is discussed and a large deviations result for asymptotically stable systems is further investigated. Several examples are treated for illustration. Received: 22 June 2000 / Revised version: 20 November 2001 / Published online: 13 May 2002     

Quantum Ergodic Restriction Theorems. I: Interior Hypersurfaces in Domains with Ergodic Billiards

Quantum ergodic restriction (QER) is the problem of finding conditions on a hypersurface H so that restrictions \({\phi_j |_H}\) to H of Δ-eigenfunctions of Riemannian manifolds (M, g) with ergodic geodesic flow are quantum ergodic on H. We prove two kinds of results: First (i) for any smooth hypersurface H in a piecewise-analytic Euclidean domain, the Cauchy data \({(\phi_j|H,\partial_{\nu}^H \phi_j|H)}\) is quantum ergodic if the Dirichlet and Neumann data are weighted appropriately. Secondly, (ii) we give conditions on H so that the Dirichlet (or Neumann) data is individually quantum ergodic. The condition involves the almost nowhere equality of left and right Poincaré maps for H. The proof involves two further novel results: (iii) a local Weyl law for boundary traces of eigenfunctions, and (iv) an ‘almost-orthogonality’ result for Fourier integral operators whose canonical relations almost nowhere commute with the geodesic flow.     

The Average Density of Self-Conformal Measures

The paper calculates the average density of the normalized Hausdorffmeasure on the fractal set generated by a conformal iteratedfunction system. It equals almost everywhere a positive constantgiven by a truncated generalized s-energy integral, where sis the corresponding Hausdorff dimension. As a main tool a conditionalGibbs measure is determined. The appendix proves an appropriateextension of Birkhoff's ergodic theorem which is also of independentinterest.     

On strictly ergodic models which are not almost topologically conjugate

Answering a question raised by Glasner and Rudolph (1984) we construct uncountably many strictly ergodic topological systems which are metrically isomorphic to a given ergodic system (X, ℬ,μ, T) but not almost topologically conjugate to it. This paper is part of the second author’s Ph.D. thesis, written under the supervision of Professor A. Bellow of the Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University. The author is grateful for her encouragement and advice. We acknowledge B. Weiss for helpful comments.     

Integral Self-affiine Tiles of Bandt＇s Model

Integral self-affine tiling of Bandt＇s model is a generalization of the integral self-affine tiling. Using ergodic theory, we show that the Lebesgue measure of the tile is a rational number where the denominator equals to the order of the associate symmetry group. We apply the result to the study of the Levy Dragon.