In his ergodic theoretical proof of the celebrated Szemeredi theorem,
H. Furstenberg introduced "nonconventional ergodic averages" which are
averages of quantities
f.Tn f.T2n f.T3n … f.Tkn
(f an L∞ function, k a fixed integer,
T a measure preserving transformation). It was sufficient, to obtain
the combinatorial application, to prove, in case f=1A, that the
lim inf of these averages was >0. The issue of the L² convergence
remained open until 2005 when it was solved by Host and Kra using deep
structure theorems. The extension to the nonconventional averages
f1.T1n f_2.Tn …fkTkn,
(fi L∞ functions,
Ti k commuting measure preserving transformations) remained
open until a proof of the L2 convergence was given by
T. Tao in 2007. Since, another proof was produced by T. Austin, using
a completely different approach. B. Host, afterwards gave another proof with
some connections to Austin's. We are going to present an alternate proof,
irrelated to the previous ones, essentially based on the tool of joinings.