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We give a short refresher on some of the main definitions and results in ergodic theory. This is not intended to be an introduction nor a review of the subject. There are many very good texts about ergodic theory some of them are given in the references.
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Collet, P. (2005). A Short Ergodic Theory Refresher. In: Collet, P., Courbage, M., Métens, S., Neishtadt, A., Zaslavsky, G. (eds) Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems. NATO Science Series, vol 182. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2947-0_1
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