2022/11/29 by KAITLYN LOYD · 1 citation
paper · doi:10.1017/etds.2022.81
Abstract We study the asymptotic behavior of the sequence \Ω (n) \_ n ∈ \mathbb N from a dynamical point of view, where Ω (n) denotes the number of prime factors of n counted with multiplicity. First, we show that for any non-atomic ergodic system (X, \mathcal B, μ , T) , the operators TΩ (n): \mathcal B → L1(μ ) have the strong sweeping-out property. In particular, this implies that the pointwise ergodic theorem does not hold along Ω (n) . Second, we show that the behaviors of Ω (n) captured by the prime number theorem and Erdős–Kac theorem are disjoint, in the sense that their dynamical correlations tend to zero.