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Zemer Kosloff

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Boundary of the Range of a random walk and the Fölner property

The range process $R_n$ of a random walk is the collection of sites visited by the random walk up to time $n$. In this work we deal with the question of whether the range process of a random walk or the range process of a cocycle over an ergodic transformation is almost surely a Fölner sequence and show the following results: % (a) The size of the inner boundary $|\partial R_n|$ of the range of recurrent aperiodic random walks on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with finite variance and aperiodic random walks in $\mathbb{Z}$ in the standard domain of attraction of the Cauchy distribution, divided by $\frac{n}{\log^2(n)}$, converges to a constant almost surely. % (b) We establish a formula for the Fölner asymptotic of transient cocycles over an ergodic probability preserving transformation and use it to show that for transient random walk on groups which are not virtually cyclic, for almost every path, the range is not a Fölner sequence. % (c) For aperiodic random walks in the domain of attraction of symmetric $α$- stable distributions with $1<α\leq 2$, we prove a sharp polynomial upper bound for the decay at infinity of $|\partial R_n|/|R_n|$. This last result shows that the range process of these random walks is almost surely a Fölner sequence.

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Proving ergodicity via divergence of ergodic sums

A classical fact in ergodic theory is that ergodicity is equivalent to almost everywhere divergence of ergodic sums of all nonnegative integrable functions which are not identically zero. We show two methods, one in the measure preserving case and one in the nonsingular case, which enable one to prove this criteria by checking it on a dense collection of functions and then extending it to all nonnegative functions. The first method is then used in a new proof of a folklore criterion for ergodicity of Poisson suspensions which does not make any reference to Fock spaces. The second method which involves the double tail relation is used to show that a large class of nonsingular Bernoulli and inhomogeneous Markov shifts are ergodic if and only if they are conservative. In the last section we discuss an extension of the Bernoulli shift result to other countable groups including $\mathbb{Z}^{d},\ d\geq 2$ and discrete Heisenberg groups.

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Examples of type ${\rm III}_{1}$ inhomogenous Markov shifts supported on topological Markov shifts

We construct inhomogenous Markov measures for which the shift is of Kreiger type ${\rm III}_{1}$. These measures are fully supported on a toplogical markov shift space of the hyperbolic toral automorphism $f(x,y)=\left(\{x+y\},x\right):\mathbb{T}^{2}\to\mathbb{T}^{2}$ and are used in a subsequent paper in the construction of $C^{1}$ Anosov diffeomorphisms of $\mathbb{T}^{2}$ without an absolutely continuous invariant measure.

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Symmetric Birkhoff sums in infinite ergodic theory

We show that the absolutely normalized, symmetric Birkhoff sums of positive integrable functions in infinite, ergodic systems never converge pointwise even though they may be almost surely bounded away from zero and infinity.

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Relative Complexity of Random Walks in Random Scenery in the absence of a weak invariance principle for the local times

We answer the question of Aaronson about the relative complexity of Random Walks in Random Sceneries driven by either aperiodic two dimensional random walks, two-dimensional Simple Random walk, or by aperiodic random walks in the domain of attraction of the Cauchy distribution. A key step is proving that the range of the random walk satisfies the Fölner property almost surely.

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On the K property for Maharam extensions of Bernoulli shifts and a question of Krengel

We show that the Maharam extension of a conservative. non singular K Bernoulli shift without an a.c.i.p. is a K transformation. This together with the fact that the Maharam extension of a conservative transformation is conservative gives a negative answer to Krengel's and Weiss's questions about existence of a type II}_\infty or type III}_λwith λnot equal to 1 Bernoulli shift. A conservative non singular K Bernoulli shift is either of type II_1 or of type III_1.

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Weak invariance principle for the local times of partial sums of Markov Chains

Let X_{n} be an integer valued Markov Chain with finite state space. Let S_{n}=\sum_{k=0}^{n}X_{k} and let L_{n}(x) be the number of times S_{k} hits x up to step n. Define the normalized local time process t_{n}(x) by t_{n}(x)=\frac{L_{n}(\sqrt{n}(x)}{\sqrt{n}}. The subject of this paper is to prove a functional, weak invariance principle for the normalized sequence t_{n}, i.e. we prove that under some assumptions about the Markov Chain, the normalized local times converge in distribution to the local time of the Brownian Motion.

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On the Zero-Type property and mixing of Bernoulli shifts

We prove that every non-singular Bernoulli shift is either zero-type or there is an equivalent invariant stationary product probability. We also give examples of a type Bernoulli shift and a Markovian flow which are power weakly mixing and zero type.

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A type III_1 Bernoulli shift

We provide a construction of a product measure under which the shift on the two point product space is a type III_1 transformation.

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