Ergodic Theorems for Group Actions : Informational and Thermodynamical Aspects (Mathematics and Its Applications (Kluwer ))

Devoted to generalizations of the Birkhoff and von Neuman ergodic theorems to semigroup representations in Banach spaces, semigroup actions in measure spaces, homogeneous random fields and random measures on homogeneous spaces, this book contains eight chapters, a number of appendices and a substantial list of references.