More stability and convergence results for higher-order Wiener-Wintner systems

Abstract

"Higher-order Wiener-Wintner averages" were constructed by Assani, Folks, and Moore to quantitatively control multiple recurrence averages. Systems in which these averages converge at a polynomial rate for a sufficiently large subset are termed "higher-order Wiener-Wintner systems of power type", in which properties like pointwise convergence of multiple recurrence averages and multiple return times averages has been shown. We establish that these higher-order Wiener-Wintner averages satisfy a type of sublinearity, and that they bound conditional expectations and products, which transfers to improved stability results of higher-order Wiener-Wintner systems under sums, factors, and products. We also establish more general convergence results for such systems, which include a polynomial return times theorem and convergence of the multilinear one-side ergodic Hilbert transform with polynomial phase.