Math 444

Senior Seminar: Ergodic Theory

General Information Schedule Homework

Schedule

Class Number Date Reading Brief Description
1 Tuesday, 1/24 Chapter 1, Appendix A Introduction, Overview, Analysis Review
2 Thursday, 1/26 Appendix B Base b Representations, Metric Spaces, Open, Closed, and Compact Sets
3 Tuesday, 1/31 2.1 Open Subsets of R, Lebesgue Outer Measure
4 Thursday, 2/2 2.2 - 2.3 The Cantor Set, Properties of Outer Measure
5 Tuesday, 2/7 2.3 Measurable Sets
6 Thursday, 2/9 2.4 Properties of Measurable Sets, Nonmeasurable Sets
7 Tuesday, 2/14 2.5 - 2.6 Sigma Algebras, Measure Spaces, Borel Sets
8 Thursday, 2/16 2.6 Borel Sets, Baire Category Theorem on R
9 Tuesday, 2/21 2.7 - 2.8 Sufficient Semi-Rings, Caratheodory's Measurability Condition
10 Thursday, 2/23 3.1 - 3.2 Ergodic and Mixing Notions, Measurable Functions, Measure-Preserving Transformations
11 Tuesday, 2/28 3.2 - 3.3 Rotation Transformations, The Doubling Map, Baire Category Theorem
12 Thursday, 3/2 3.3 - 3.5 Topologically Transitive Maps, Sufficient Semi-Rings and Measure-Preserving Transformations, Recurrence
13 Tuesday, 3/7 3.5 - 3.6 Poincare Recurrence, Invariant Sets
14 Thursday, 3/9 3.6 - 3.7 Invariant Sets, Ergodic Transformations
15 Tuesday, 3/14 3.7, 3.12 Examples of Ergodic Transformations, Symbolic Spaces
16 Thursday, 3/16 4.1 The Riemann Integral, Lebesgue's Characterization
- - - Spring Break
17 Tuesday, 4/4 4.2 Measurable Functions
18 Thursday, 4/6 4.3 Simple Functions, The Lebesgue Integral of a Bounded Function with Finite Support
19 Tuesday, 4/11 - Properties of the Lebesgue Integral, Bounded Convergence Theorem
20 Thursday, 4/13 4.4 The Lebesgue Integral of a Nonnegative Function, Fatou's Lemma, Monotone Convergence Theorem
21 Tuesday, 4/18 4.6 - 4.7 Lebesgue Integrable Functions, Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem, Norms on Vector Spaces
22 Thursday, 4/20 4.2, 4.7 Banach Spaces, L^p Spaces, Measurable and Ergodic Transformations Revisisted
23 Tuesday, 4/25 5.1 Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem
24 Thursday, 4/27 5.1 - 5.3 Consequences of the Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem
25 Tuesday, 5/2 - Inner Products, Orthogonality, Projections
26 Thursday, 5/4 5.4 Hilbert Spaces
27 Tuesday, 5/9 5.4, 6.1 Mean Ergodic Theorem, Cesaro Mean, Mixing
28 Thursday, 5/11 - Random Sequences