Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/iii/paper-16/4/a/solution

Let be a probability space, let be a measure-preserving transformation, and let . The Birkhoff ergodic theorem asserts that
for almost every , where is the invariant sigma-algebra. The limit is integrable, satisfies almost everywhere, and has . On a probability space the convergence also holds in . No invertibility of is required.
If is ergodic, its invariant sigma-algebra is trivial modulo null sets, so its conditional expectation is constant. In that case the concise form is

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