Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 4 22F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Fix , and let be the point evaluation functional . Define orbit averages in the dual space byEach has norm at most one and satisfies . The space is separable, so part (a) gives a subsequence converging pointwise to some . In particular,For every , the Cesaro average telescopes at the endpoints:whose absolute value is at most . Passing to the convergent subsequence provesThus is an invariant functional of a composition operator.
It need not be unique when is not the identity operator. For the nonidentity homeomorphism , both and are fixed. Hence the two distinct point evaluationshave value one on and are invariant under . Therefore nonidentity does not imply uniqueness.