On spectral measures and convergence rates in von Neumann’s Ergodic theorem

Abstract

We show that the power-law decay exponents in von Neumann’s Ergodic Theorem (for discrete systems) are the pointwise scaling exponents of a spectral measure at the spectral value 1. In this work we also prove that, under an assumption of weak convergence, in the absence of a spectral gap, the convergence rates of the time-average in von Neumann’s Ergodic Theorem depend on sequences of time going to infinity.