Evaluation of the limits of maximal means

Abstract

It is proved that the limit

$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{\Delta \to \infty } \mathop {\sup }\limits_\gamma \tfrac{1}{\Delta }\int_0^\Delta {f(\gamma (t))dt} $$

, wheref: ℝ → ℝ is a locally integrable (in the sense of Lebesgue) function with zero mean and the supremum is taken over all solutions of the generalized differential equation γ ∈ [ω1, ω2], coincides with the limit

$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{T \to \infty } \mathop {\sup }\limits_{c \geqslant 0} \varphi _f (k,{\mathbf{ }}T,{\mathbf{ }}c)$$

, where

$$\varphi _f = \frac{{(k - 1)\bar I_f (T,c)}}{{1 + (k - 1)\bar \lambda _f (T,c)}},k = \frac{{\omega _2 }}{{\omega _1 }}$$

. Here ¯λf = λf /T, ¯ I_f =If/T, and λf is the Lebesgue measure of the set

$$\{ \gamma \in [\gamma _0 ,\gamma _0 + T]:f(\gamma ) \geqslant c\} = A_f ,I_f = \int_{A_f } {f(\gamma )d\gamma } $$

. It is established that this limit always exists for almost-periodic functionsf.