By Tanja Eisner, Bálint Farkas, Markus Haase, Rainer Nagel

Wonderful fresh effects by means of Host–Kra, Green–Tao, and others, spotlight the timeliness of this systematic creation to classical ergodic thought utilizing the instruments of operator concept. Assuming no earlier publicity to ergodic conception, this ebook presents a contemporary starting place for introductory classes on ergodic thought, specially for college students or researchers with an curiosity in useful research. whereas simple analytic notions and effects are reviewed in different appendices, extra complex operator theoretic themes are built intimately, even past their speedy reference to ergodic thought. as a result, the publication can be compatible for complex or special-topic classes on practical research with purposes to ergodic theory.

Topics include:
• an intuitive creation to ergodic theory
• an advent to the elemental notions, buildings, and conventional examples of topological dynamical systems
• Koopman operators, Banach lattices, lattice and algebra homomorphisms, and the Gelfand–Naimark theorem
• measure-preserving dynamical systems
• von Neumann’s suggest Ergodic Theorem and Birkhoff’s Pointwise Ergodic Theorem
• strongly and weakly blending systems
• an exam of notions of isomorphism for measure-preserving systems
• Markov operators, and the similar notion of an element of a degree keeping system
• compact teams and semigroups, and a strong device of their research, the Jacobs–de Leeuw–Glicksberg decomposition
• an creation to the spectral conception of dynamical platforms, the theorems of Furstenberg and Weiss on a number of recurrence, and purposes of dynamical platforms to combinatorics (theorems of van der Waerden, Gallai,and Hindman, Furstenberg’s Correspondence precept, theorems of Roth and Furstenberg–Sárközy)

Beyond its use within the school room, Operator Theoretic points of Ergodic idea can function a important beginning for doing examine on the intersection of ergodic thought and operator concept