arXiv:1605.03568v1 [math.OA] 11 May 2016 ru,lclycmatgop aia roi inequalitie ergodic maximal group, compact locally group, eune h eerho h xsec n hieo h conve the of subject. choice delicate and and take interesting existence is an the averages quite on the also research and The group amenable sequence. general the for theorem e) f0 if net), roi hoes oegnrly esuysmgop o group (or semigroups study we generally, More everyw theorems. almost consider convergegence ergodic under and convergence theorems, of ergodic modes for“mean” The stationarity. for cept iiso vrgsof averages of limits ic h eybgnigo h hoyo rnso prtr” Bu operators”. of “rings of theory th the ergodic of noncommutative called beginning so very the the have operato we since the case by this systems In quantum for space. given be can they space, bility ame in paper connected Lindenstrauss’s for that grou 2001 result Abelian until a is for It gave substitute est [EG74]. Greenleaf a to as and is treated direction Emerson this is theorem, t in which aims ergodic group ultimate of amenable the context for of Th the One in sequence. convenient. Følner however most amenability, a the has define it to if ways amenable called alent is group compact locally A tutrsfrdffrn ru ye.Gvnalclycmatgrou compact locally a a interesting Given more usually types. and group different subject, for analysis this structures in inherent be to euneo esrbesubsets measurable of sequence a ln sequence a along sa motn hpe nfntoa nlssadpoaiiy nth In transformation me preserving probability. measure statistical and a analysis by in functional theo described origins is the in its tionarity in, chapter come having important to an Birkhoff, continued as physics and mathematical Neumann to von applications by 1931 in e od n phrases: and words Key Classification: Subject Mathematics 2010 hl h bevbeqatte ncasclssescnb described be can systems classical in quantities observable the While h td fegdcterm sa l rnho yaia system dynamical of branch old an is theorems ergodic of study The OCMUAIEEGDCTERM O CONNECTED FOR THEOREMS ERGODIC NONCOMMUTATIVE etdaeal oal opc rus o yaia sys dynamical a For groups. compact locally amenable nected yuigteEesnGenefssrcueterm etra we theorem, for theorems structure ergodic Emerson-Greenleaf’s the the on using representation By defined well a with group compact locally omttv ucinsae osrce from constructed spaces function commutative Abstract. ec,w a iemxmlegdcieulte on inequalities ergodic maximal co give can types—cube we convergence gence, multi-parameter different to ing o emn ler ihanra atflfiietaead( and trace finite faithful normal a with algebra Neumann von a L al egv h niiulegdcterm for theorems ergodic individual the give we nally hr h roi vrgsaetknaogcransequence certain along taken are averages ergodic the where < 1 log | F 2( n d | − < 1) ,f f, hsppri eoe otesuyo ocmuaieergodic noncommutative of study the to devoted is paper This ∞ L ( T M o each for g ◦ ,ec fwihi eue rmtersl led nw ndi in known already result the from deduced is which of each ), f Noncommutative ,f T, vrsubsets over R ◦ n d T ru cin.Sltigthe Splitting actions. group ∀ and 2 . . . , g { MNBEGROUPS AMENABLE F ∈ n } G, rmr 65,4L5 eodr 73,37A99. 47A35, Secondary 46L55; 46L53, Primary I o integrable for L n ∞ n 1. p =1 sae,nnomttv yaia ytm,cnetdame connected systems, dynamical noncommutative -spaces, ⊂ Introduction n in G. lim →∞ USUN MU G npriua,goptertccnieain seem considerations group-theoretic particular, In M 1 | scle ønrsqec smlryfrFølner for (similarly sequence Følner a called is for s G gF nwihteidvda roi hoeshold. theorems ergodic individual the which on L cigon acting n Inventiones | 1 f. F ( R △ M n d hscrepnst h rbblsi con- probabilistic the to corresponds This | R F ru,idvda roi theorem. ergodic individual group, n nnnomttv rizspace Orlicz noncommutative on and ) d n cin rbe ntocssaccord- cases two in problem actions fmaual ust of subsets measurable of s | vrec n netitdconver- unrestricted and nvergence M L se h e usint proving to question key the nsfer 0 = e ( tem 1 T etyt n h ags non- largest the find to try we , ( eefr“niiul o pointwise) (or “individual” for here to otyaenr convergence norm are mostly ation M ,σ G, n n osdr vrgstaken averages considers one and , Ln1 aetepitieergodic pointwise the gave [Lin01] . si ocmuaieprobability noncommutative in rs ln eti eprdFølner tempered certain along n n on and ) M gnesqec ntegopis group the in sequence rgence ihlf armeasure Haar left with G p s) al oal opc ru in group compact locally nable sacnetdamenable connected a is ) oywihhsbe developed been has which eory nyma roi theorems ergodic mean only t ,G σ G, τ, , yso andisonrights own its earned soon ry er,teaoedfiiinis definition above the heory, { crigt h bnac of abundance the to ccording .Uigtegopstructure group the Using p. lsia iuto h sta- the situation classical e T bihteegdctheorems ergodic the ablish yra ucin nproba- on functions real by g g , hoywihwsstarted was which theory r r ayohrequiv- other many are ere L ,wee( where ), hoesfrcon- for theorems 1 ∈ log ceecs.Fi- case. screte hnc.Wienew While chanics. G 2( } d − foeaosand operators of 1) G M . L τ , ( M is ) ), nable | · | , 2 MU SUN
have been obtained at the early stage. It is until 1976 that a substitute of “a.e. convergence” was first treated in Lance’s work [Lan76], which is called almost uniform convergence. This conception unsealed the study of individual ergodic theorems for noncommutative case. In the same period, Conze and Dang-Ngoc was inspired by Lance’s work and generalized the pointwise ergodic result in [EG74] to the actions on von Neumann algebra, which is now the p = ∞ case of noncommutative Lp spaces. In this paper, we denote M as a von Neumann algebra equipped with a normal faithful finite trace τ. In this case, we will often assume that τ is normalized, i.e., τ(1) = 1, thus we call (M, τ) a noncommutative probability space. Let Lp(M)(1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) be the associated noncommutative r Lp-space and Lp log L(M)(r > 0) the associated noncommutative Orlicz space. The set of all projections in M is denoted as P (M). A multi-parameter net {xα1,...,αd } is said to converge bilaterally almost uniformly (resp. almost uniformly) to x, if for any ε> 0, there exists e ∈ P (M), such that ⊥ τ(e ) ≤ ε and {e(xα1,...,αd − x)e} (resp. {(xα1,...,αd − x)e}) converges to 0 in M. Usually we denote it as b.a.u. (resp. a.u.) convergence. Let T : M→M be a linear map, it is called a kernel if it is a positive contraction and satisfy τ ◦T ≤ τ for all x ∈ L1(M)∩M+. We know the domain of kernels can naturally extend to Lp(M) for any 1 ≤ p< ∞ (c.f. Lemma 1.1 [JX07]), and we denote U as the set of all kernels. Now given a locally compact semigroup G, we define a homomorphism σ : G → U where correspondingly g 7→ Tg as G-actions on Lp(M), and the mapping g → Tg(x) is strongly continuous, for any x ∈ Lp(M), 1 ≤ p < ∞. So putting together (M, τ, G, σ) we call it a noncommutative dynamical system, and we we denote by Fσ the projection from Lp(M) onto the invariant subspace of G-actions. Ergodic averages along increasing measurable net {Vα} is defined as 1 MVα (x)= Tg(x) dg. |Vα| ZVα Our aim is to further generalize the noncommutative individual ergodic theorem for the system (M, τ, G, σ) if G is a connected amenable locally compact group. The main step of our method is also inherited from [EG74] that we decompose the connected amenable Lie group into the product of one compact group and Rd group. However, it is usually difficult to use iteration to obtain the result for p ∼ 1 case for multi-parameter R actions. To describe the situation, we here introduce two types of convergence for multi-parameter se-
d quence {ak1,...,kd }(k1,...,kd)∈N (similar for net) in any Banach space B. The first type is called cube convergence, if the sequence {an,...,n}n∈N converges in B when n tends to ∞. The second type is d called unrestricted convergence, if {ak1,...,kd }(k1,...,kd)∈N converges in B when k1,...,kd tend to ∞ arbitrarily. Thus when we consider the ergodic averages for Rd actions, we have separate maxi- mal ergodic inequalities according to different types of convergence, for which we refer to section 3. We emphasize here that for the more general case of unrestricted convergence, it is kind of a breakthrough since there is no weak type (1, 1) inequality for multi-parameter noncommutative dynamical system. It is only recently in my joint work with Hong [HS16] the maximal inequality d 2(d−1) for the case of Z group acting on noncommutative Orlicz space L1 log L(M) is obtained, in the light of which we can give a result in continuous case. It is in section 2 we give some more detailed introduction of noncommutative probability space, and in section 4 we present the main result of this paper. Since it is obvious that cube convergence is just a special case of unrestricted convergence, the sequences of measurable subsets of G taken along for keeping cube convergence of the ergodic averages should be included in unrestricted convergence case. This idea is specified through the narrative and proof Theorem 4.2.
2. Preliminaries
We use standard notions for the theory of noncommutative Lp spaces. Our main references are [PX03] and [Xu07]. Let M be a von Neumann algebra equipped with a normal faithful finite trace τ. Let L0(M) be the spaces of measurable operators associated to (M, τ). For a measurable operator x, its generalized singular number is defined as 1 µt(x) = inf{λ> 0 : τ (λ,∞)(|x|) ≤ t}, t> 0. NONCOMMUTATIVE ERGODIC THEOREMS FOR CONNECTED AMENABLE GROUPS 3
+ The trace τ can be extended to the positive cone L0 (M) of L0(M), still denoted by τ, ∞ + τ(x)= µt(x)dt, x ∈ L0 (M). Z0 Given 0