Notes on noncommutative ergodic theorems

Abstract

Given a semifinite von Neumann algebra M \mathcal M equipped with a faithful normal semifinite trace τ \tau , we prove that the spaces L 0 ( M , τ ) L^0(\mathcal M,\tau ) and R τ \mathcal R_\tau are complete with respect to pointwise—almost uniform and bilaterally almost uniform—convergences in L 0 ( M , τ ) L^0(\mathcal M,\tau ) . Then we show that the pointwise Cauchy property for a special class of nets of linear operators in the space L 1 ( M , τ ) L^1(\mathcal M,\tau ) can be extended to pointwise convergence of such nets in any fully symmetric space E ⊂ R τ E\subset \mathcal R_\tau , in particular, in any space L p ( M , τ ) L^p(\mathcal M,\tau ) , 1 ≤ p > ∞ 1\leq p>\infty . Some applications of these results in the noncommutative ergodic theory are discussed.