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What does ergodic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (mathematics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
  2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
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For the quadrant version, we prove the existence of temporally ergodic evolutions and of spatially ergodic ones.
Here, there are various results demonstrating that strongly ergodic classical billiards, when quantized, exhibit quantum ergodicity.
Doeblin also contributed to the theory of random chains with complete connection, some of which was used in a paper by him on ergodic properties of continued fractions.
We have a long way to go before we understand the ergodic theory of strange attractors.
While in the Harvard College Observatory he worked on many mathematical and astronomical subjects including topology and ergodic theory.
Armed with this understanding of the definition of ergodicity, we can now discuss some important properties of ergodic systems.

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