A new version of Kingman's subadditive ergodic theorem is presented, in which the subadditivity and stationarity assumptions are relaxed without weakening the conclusions. This result applies to a number of situations that were not covered by Kingman's original theorem. The proof involves a rather simple reduction to the additive case, where Birkhoff's ergodic theorem can be applied.
@article{1176992811,
author = {Liggett, Thomas M.},
title = {An Improved Subadditive Ergodic Theorem},
journal = {Ann. Probab.},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
year = {1985},
pages = { 1279-1285},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1176992811}
}
Liggett, Thomas M. An Improved Subadditive Ergodic Theorem. Ann. Probab., Tome 13 (1985) no. 4, pp. 1279-1285. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1176992811/