Trimmed strong laws and distributional limits for exponentially mixing systems

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Main Authors: Auer, Max, Liu, Sixu
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Published: 2026
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Liu, Sixu
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Liu, Sixu
contents The Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem establishes pointwise convergence for integrable observables, but for $f\notin L^1$, no normalization yields almost sure convergence. This paper investigates trimmed ergodic sums, where the largest observations are removed, for observables with polynomial tails $¶(f>t)\asymp t^{-1/α}$ in exponentially mixing dynamical systems. We prove trimmed strong laws of large numbers when $α\geq 1$, extending known results from the i.i.d.\ case. Moreover, we establish distributional limit theorems for both lightly and intermediately trimmed sums in the regime $α>1/2$, showing convergence to a non-standard law, which we describe explicitly, and a normal distribution, respectively. The proofs rely on approximating the trimmed sums by truncated ergodic sums and exploiting the system's exponential mixing properties.
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spellingShingle Trimmed strong laws and distributional limits for exponentially mixing systems
Auer, Max
Liu, Sixu
Dynamical Systems
Primary: 37A50, 60F15, 60G70, Secondary: 37C40
The Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem establishes pointwise convergence for integrable observables, but for $f\notin L^1$, no normalization yields almost sure convergence. This paper investigates trimmed ergodic sums, where the largest observations are removed, for observables with polynomial tails $¶(f>t)\asymp t^{-1/α}$ in exponentially mixing dynamical systems. We prove trimmed strong laws of large numbers when $α\geq 1$, extending known results from the i.i.d.\ case. Moreover, we establish distributional limit theorems for both lightly and intermediately trimmed sums in the regime $α>1/2$, showing convergence to a non-standard law, which we describe explicitly, and a normal distribution, respectively. The proofs rely on approximating the trimmed sums by truncated ergodic sums and exploiting the system's exponential mixing properties.
title Trimmed strong laws and distributional limits for exponentially mixing systems
topic Dynamical Systems
Primary: 37A50, 60F15, 60G70, Secondary: 37C40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08126