Séminaire Bourbaki

Benjamin Krause — Pointwise Ergodic Theory after Jean Bourgain: Examples and Entropy

Europe/Paris
Hermite (IHP)

Hermite

IHP

Description

In this talk, we will explain how Bourgain combined elementary computation with a deep understanding of the entropic method to prove his pointwise ergodic theorem. The focus throughout will be on the intuition and heuristic which led him to his proof.