A Backward Ergodic Theorem for Uncountable-to-one Transformations

Abstract

We establish a generalization of Anush Tserunyan and Jenna Zomback's 2024 Backward Ergodic Theorem. We remove the countable-to-one assumption and thus provide a backward ergodic theorem for arbitrary measure-preserving transformations. However, this new setting introduces measurability concerns as unlike the countable-to-one case, we no longer have a collection of Borel right inverses. Instead, we must rely on the Jankov, von Neumann uniformization theorem. Towards this, we use Borel and measured field structures introduced by Stefaan Vaes and Lise Wouters.