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The Pointwise Ergodic Theorem for Transformations whose Orbits contain or are contained in the Orbits of a Measure-Preserving Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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1. Introduction. Let be a probability space with standard. Let T be a bimeasurable one-to-one map of Ω onto itself. Let U: Ω → Ω be another measurable transformation whose orbits are contained in the T-orbits; that is,
where Z denotes the set of integers. (This is equivalent to saying that there is a measurable mapping L: Ω → Z such that U(ω) = TL(ω)(ω), ω ∈ Ω.) Such pairs (T, U) arise quite naturally in ergodic theory and information theory. (For example, in ergodic theory, one can see such pairs in the study of the full group of a transformation [1]; in information theory, such a pair can be associated with the input and output of a variable-length source encoder [2] [3].) Neveu [4] obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for U to be measure-preserving if T is measure-preserving. However, if U fails to be measure-preserving, U might still possess many of the features of measure-preserving transformations.
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