Mixing on rank-one transformations
Volume 199 / 2010
                    
                    
                        Studia Mathematica 199 (2010), 43-72                    
                                        
                        MSC: Primary 37A25; Secondary 28D05.                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/sm199-1-4                    
                                    
                                                Abstract
We prove that mixing on rank-one transformations is equivalent to “the uniform convergence of ergodic averages (as in the mean ergodic theorem) over subsequences of partial sums”. In particular, all polynomial staircase transformations are mixing.
 
             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                         
                                                            