Koopman Operator and Mean Ergodic Theorem #
This file contains the core results connecting the Koopman operator to conditional expectation:
condexpL2_fixes_fixedSubspace- CE fixes the fixed subspacebirkhoffAverage_tendsto_condexp- Birkhoff averages converge to CE in L²condexpL2_koopman_comm- CE commutes with Koopman operator
These results are fundamental for the de Finetti proof via ergodic theory.
Conditional expectation onto shift-invariant σ-algebra fixes elements of fixedSubspace.
This is the tower property of conditional expectation: E[f|σ] = f when f is σ-measurable.
Main theorem: Birkhoff averages converge in L² to conditional expectation.
This combines:
- The Mean Ergodic Theorem (MET) giving convergence to orthogonal projection
- The identification proj = condexp via range_condexp_eq_fixedSubspace
Part B (Shift Equivariance): Conditional expectation commutes with Koopman operator #
The conditional expectation onto the shift-invariant σ-algebra commutes with composition by shift. This is the key fact for showing CE[f(ω₀)·g(ωₖ) | 𝓘] is constant in k.
Proof Strategy: Both condexpL2 and koopman shift are continuous linear operators,
with condexpL2 being the orthogonal projection onto fixedSubspace hσ. For any f ∈ Lp,
we show P(Uf) = Pf where P = condexpL2 and U = koopman shift:
- Decompose
f = Pf + (f - Pf)withPf ∈ Sand(f - Pf) ⊥ SwhereS = fixedSubspace U(Pf) = PfsincePf ∈ fixedSubspace(definition of fixed subspace)U(f - Pf) ⊥ SsinceUis an isometry preserving orthogonality- Therefore
P(Uf) = P(Pf) = Pfsince projection onto invariant subspace commutes.
Part B (Shift Equivariance): Conditional expectation commutes with Koopman operator.
Specialization to cylinder functions: the core case for de Finetti.