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19th International Conference on Operator Theory
June 27 - July 2, 2002
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy and the Faculty of Mathematics of the West University of Timisoara
Timisoara, Romania

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Recurrence and ergodicity in unital *-algebras
by
Rocco Duvenhage
University of Pretoria
Coauthors: Anton Stroh (University of Pretoria)

Results concerning recurrence and ergodicity are proved in an abstract Hilbert space setting based on the proof of Khintchine's recurrence theorem for sets, and on the Hilbert space characterization of ergodicity. These results are carried over to a non-commutative *-algebraic setting using the GNS-construction. This generalizes the corresponding measure theoretic results, in particular a variation of Khintchine's Theorem for ergodic systems, where the image of one set overlaps with another set, instead of with itself.

Date received: June 4, 2002

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