Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques

Quasi-compactness and mean ergodicity for Markov kernels acting on weighted supremum normed spaces

Loïc Hervé
Source: Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. Volume 44, Number 6 (2008), 1090-1095.

Abstract

Let P be a Markov kernel on a measurable space E with countably generated σ-algebra, let w:E→[1, +∞[ such that PwCw with C≥0, and let $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ be the space of measurable functions on E satisfying ‖fw=sup{w(x)−1|f(x)|, xE}<+∞. We prove that P is quasi-compact on $(\mathcal {B}_{w},\|\cdot\|_{w})$ if and only if, for all $f\in \mathcal {B}_{w}$, $(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}P^{k}f)_{n}$ contains a subsequence converging in $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ to Πf=∑di=1μi(f)vi, where the vi’s are non-negative bounded measurable functions on E and the μi’s are probability distributions on E. In particular, when the space of P-invariant functions in $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ is finite-dimensional, uniform ergodicity is equivalent to mean ergodicity.

Résumé

Soit P un noyau markovien sur un espace mesurable E muni d’une tribu à base dénombrable, soit w:E→[1, +∞[ tel que PwCw, avec C≥0, et soit $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ l’espace des fonctions f mesurables de E dans ℂ telles que ‖fw=sup{w(x)−1|f(x)|, xE}<+∞. Nous démontrons que P est quasi-compact sur $(\mathcal {B}_{w},\|\cdot\|_{w})$ si et seulement si, pour tout $f\in \mathcal {B}_{w}$, $(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}P^{k}f)_{n}$ contient une sous-suite convergeant dans $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ vers Πf=∑di=1μi(f)vi, où vi est une fonction mesurable positive bornée sur E et μi une probabilité sur E. En particulier, quand le sous-espace de $\mathcal {B}_{w}$ constitué des fonctions P-invariantes est de dimension finie, la convergence uniforme des moyennes est équivalente à la convergence ponctuelle.

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