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Conditional sampled and continuous-time averages
Statement
Let be a Hamiltonian phase datum and let be a complete invariant Borel domain carrying a Borel probability such that for every and every Borel . Fix a sampling interval and define the time map . Assume this particular map is ergodic for , meaning that every Borel with has . For every real , the sampled averages converge -almost surely and in to . If is additionally bounded and Borel, then the continuous-time averages converge -almost surely and in to the same mean as . No ergodicity of every time map or generic Hamiltonian flow is asserted.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A complete invariant domain, a probability invariant under the Hamiltonian flow, , ergodicity of , and the integrability or boundedness condition on in the relevant clause.
is carried for the completed-product Fubini supplier (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()).
Hamiltonian phase, complete-domain flow and reference measure: is a smooth local Hamiltonian flow with the usual flow composition law wherever defined.
Measure-preserving transformations and systems and Ergodicity relative to an invariant measure: the selected map preserves and is ergodic relative to ; the cited convention tests strictly invariant sets, .
Birkhoff's theorem for an ergodic probability system: for a real observable and an ergodic probability-preserving map, its sampled averages converge almost surely and in to the space mean. The actual supplier statement permits noninvertible maps.
Tonelli and Fubini for the completed product, with only almost-everywhere section measurability: for the completed product of time Lebesgue measure and , the bounded jointly measurable integrand may be integrated in either order.
Dominated convergence: a uniformly bounded sequence on the probability space that converges almost everywhere also converges in .
Integral invariance under measure-preserving maps: flow invariance of preserves the integral of an integrable observable under each .
Proof
Given: [A1], [F1]–[F6], and the hypotheses in the statement.
The map is a measurable self-map preserving , and it is ergodic by hypothesis. Apply [F3] to the real observable . This proves the sampled almost-sure and convergence to .
Now assume is bounded and Borel. Joint measurability of the flow makes measurable. Define . By [F4], is measurable; ; and by [F6] and Fubini, .
The discrete average of is exactly , by the flow composition law and the partition of the time interval into blocks of length . Applying the almost-sure part of [F3] to bounded gives convergence of these block averages to . Since they are bounded by , [F5] also gives convergence along .
For arbitrary with , let . Then and . Hence This deterministic bound tends to zero uniformly in , so the almost-sure and limits in step 2.1 hold for all real .
Remarks
The hypothesis is about the chosen sampled map . A continuous flow may be ergodic while a resonant sampled time map is not, so the theorem does not replace the explicit ergodicity assumption.
Depends on
Hamiltonian phase, complete-domain flow and reference measure
Measure-preserving transformations and systems
Ergodicity relative to an invariant measure
Birkhoff's theorem for an ergodic probability system
Tonelli and Fubini for the completed product, with only almost-everywhere section measurability
Dominated convergence
Integral invariance under measure-preserving maps
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()