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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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We have a long way to go before we understand the ergodic theory of strange attractors.
Here, there are various results demonstrating that strongly ergodic classical billiards, when quantized, exhibit quantum ergodicity.
In the stochastic case, we prove a multiplicative ergodic theorem, asserting that the stochastic spectral vector exists in all cases.
Armed with this understanding of the definition of ergodicity, we can now discuss some important properties of ergodic systems.
His ergodic theorem gave the kinetic theory of gases a rigorous basis.
For the quadrant version, we prove the existence of temporally ergodic evolutions and of spatially ergodic ones.

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