Convergence of ergodic-martingale paraproducts

Abstract

In this note we introduce a sequence of bilinear operators that unify ergodic averages and backward martingales in a nontrivial way. We establish its convergence in a range of $L^p$-norms and leave its a.s. convergence as an open problem. This problem shares some similarities with a well-known unresolved conjecture on a.s. convergence of double ergodic averages with respect to two commuting transformations.

8 pages; v2: references added and corrected following reviewer's report