Pointwise multiple averages for sublinear functions

For any measure-preserving system $(X,{\mathcal{B}},\unicode[STIX]{x1D707},T_{1},\ldots ,T_{d})$ with no commutativity assumptions on the transformations $T_{i},$$1\leq i\leq d,$ we study the pointwise convergence of multiple ergodic averages with iterates of different growth coming from a large class of sublinear functions. This class properly contains important subclasses of Hardy field functions of order zero and of Fejér functions, i.e., tempered functions of order zero. We show that the convergence of the single average, via an invariant property, implies the convergence of the multiple one. We also provide examples of sublinear functions which are, in general, bad for convergence on arbitrary systems, but good for uniquely ergodic systems. The case where the fastest function is linear is addressed as well, and we provide, in all the cases, an explicit formula of the limit function.

An approximate Hahn-Banach-Lagrange theorem

In this paper, we proved a new extended version of the Hahn-Banach-Lagrange theorem that is valid in the absence of a qualification condition and is called an approximate Hahn-Banach-Lagrange theorem. This result, in special cases, gives rise to approximate sandwich and approximate Hahn-Banach theorems. These results extend the Hahn-Banach-Lagrange theorem, the sandwich theorem in [18], and the celebrated Hahn-Banach theorem. The mentioned results extend the original ones into two features: Firstly, they extend the original versions to the case with extended sublinear functions (i.e., the sublinear functions that possibly possess extended real values). Secondly, they are topological versions which held without any qualification condition. Next, we showed that our approximate Hahn-Banach-Lagrange theorem was actually equivalent to the asymptotic Farkas-type results that were established recently [10]. This result, together with the results [5, 16], give us a general picture on the equivalence of the Farkas lemma and the Hahn-Banach theorem, from the original version to their corresponding extensions and in either non-asymptotic or asymptotic forms.