The Blum-Hanson Property

Abstract

Given a (real or complex, separable) Banach space, and a contraction T on X, we say that T has the Blum-Hanson property if whenever x, y ∈ X are such that Tnx tends weakly to y in X as n tends to infinity, the means{1 \over N}\sum\limits_{k = 1}^N {{T^{{n_k}}}x} tend to y in norm for every strictly increasing sequence (nk) k≥1 of integers. The space X itself has the Blum-Hanson property if every contraction on X has the Blum-Hanson property. We explain the ergodic-theoretic motivation for the Blum-Hanson property, prove that Hilbert spaces have the Blum-Hanson property, and then present a recent criterion of a geometric flavor, due to Lefèvre-Matheron-Primot, which allows to retrieve essentially all the known examples of spaces with the Blum-Hanson property. Lastly, following Lefèvre-Matheron, we characterize the compact metric spaces K such that the space C(K) has the Blum-Hanson property.

A note on the Blum-Hanson property of some contractions on $\mathrm{L}^p$-spaces

“…This property has its origin in the paper [BlH60]. We refer to the survey [Gri19] and to the nice memoir [Oos09] for more information. It was independently proved in [JoK71] and [AkS72] that a Hilbert space has this property.…”