Abstract
Given a (real or complex, separable) Banach space, and a contraction T on X, we say that T has the Blum-Hanson property if whenever x, y ∈ X are such that Tnx tends weakly to y in X as n tends to infinity, the means
tend to y in norm for every strictly increasing sequence (nk) k≥1 of integers. The space X itself has the Blum-Hanson property if every contraction on X has the Blum-Hanson property. We explain the ergodic-theoretic motivation for the Blum-Hanson property, prove that Hilbert spaces have the Blum-Hanson property, and then present a recent criterion of a geometric flavor, due to Lefèvre-Matheron-Primot, which allows to retrieve essentially all the known examples of spaces with the Blum-Hanson property. Lastly, following Lefèvre-Matheron, we characterize the compact metric spaces K such that the space C(K) has the Blum-Hanson property.
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