In mathematics, the Wiener–Wintner theorem, named after Norbert Wiener and Aurel Wintner, is a strengthening of the ergodic theorem, proved by Wiener and Wintner (1941).
Suppose that τ is a measure-preserving transformation of a measure space S with finite measure.
If f is a real-valued integrable function on S then the Wiener–Wintner theorem states that there is a measure 0 set E such that the average exists for all real λ and for all P not in E. The special case for λ = 0 is essentially the Birkhoff ergodic theorem, from which the existence of a suitable measure 0 set E for any fixed λ, or any countable set of values λ, immediately follows.
The point of the Wiener–Wintner theorem is that one can choose the measure 0 exceptional set E to be independent of λ.
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