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Pointwise theorems for amenable groups

Author(s): Elon Lindenstrauss
Journal: Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1999), 82-90.
MSC (1991): Primary 28D15
Posted: June 30, 1999
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Abstract: In this paper we describe proofs of the pointwise ergodic theorem and Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem for discrete amenable groups, along Følner sequences that obey some restrictions. These restrictions are mild enough so that such sequences exist for all amenable groups.


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Additional Information:

Elon Lindenstrauss
Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Email: elon@math.huji.ac.il

DOI: 10.1090/S1079-6762-99-00065-7
PII: S 1079-6762(99)00065-7
Keywords: Amenable groups, pointwise convergence, ergodic theorems
Received by editor(s): January 18, 1999
Posted: June 30, 1999
Additional Notes: The author would like to thank the Clore Foundation for its support.
Communicated by: Yitzhak Katznelson
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


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