陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Lecture 12: Weakly mixing systems」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In the previous lecture , we studied the recurrence properties of compact systems, which are systems in which all measurable functions exhibit almost periodicity – they almost return completely to themselves after repeated shifting. Now, we consider the opposite extreme of mixing systems – those in which all measurable functions (of mean zero) exhibit mixing – they become orthogonal to themselves after repeated shifting. (Actually, there are two different types of mixing, str

We shall see that for weakly mixing systems, averages such as can be computed very explicitly (in fact, this average converges to the constant ). More generally, we shall see that weakly mixing components of a system tend to average themselves out and thus become irrelevant when studying many types of ergodic averages. Our main tool here will be the humble Cauchy-Schwarz inequality , and in particular a certain consequence of it, known as the van der Corput lemma .

已知结果和反例

As one application of this theory, 下面会 be able to establish Roth’s theorem (the k=3 case of Szemerédi’s theorem ).

Much as compact systems were characterised by their abundance of almost periodic functions, 下面会 characterise mixing systems by their abundance of mixing functions (this is not standard terminology). To define and motivate this concept, it will be convenient to introduce a weak notion of convergence (this notation is also not standard):

证明或构造的主线

Definition 1. ( Cesàro convergence ) A sequence in a normed vector space is said to converge in the Cesàro sense to a limit c if the averages converge strongly to c, in which case we write . We also write (thus if and only if ).

Exercise 1. Let be a bounded sequence of non-negative numbers. Show that the following three statements are equivalent:

阅读时建议盯住的点

Which of the implications between 1, 2, 3 remain valid if is not bounded? Let be a measure-preserving system, and let be a function. We consider the correlation coefficients as n goes to infinity. Note that we have the symmetry , so we only need to consider the case when n is positive. The mean ergodic theorem (Corollary 2 from Lecture 8 ) tells us the Cesàro behaviour of these coefficients. Indeed, we have

where is the -algebra of essentially shift-invariant sets. In particular, if the system is ergodic, and f has mean zero (i.e. ), then we have

值得单独记下的条目

• converges to zero in density. [We say converges in density to c if for any , the set has upper density zero.]
• For every , converges in density to . (See Exercise 1 for a definition of convergence in density.)
• For any measurable , converges in density to .
• The product system is ergodic.
• Whenever is ergodic, the product system is ergodic.
• (Structure) has a non-trivial compact factor.
• (Randomness) is weakly mixing.
• T is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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