We give necessary and sufficient conditions which characterize the Young measures associated to two oscillating sequences of functions, un on $\omega_1\times \omega_2$ and vn on $\omega_2$ satisfying the constraint $v_n(y)=\frac{1}{|\omega_1|} \int_{\omega_1} u_n (x, y) dx$. Our study is motivated by nonlinear effects induced by homogenization. Techniques based on equimeasurability and rearrangements are employed.

Let $\cal D $ denote the collection of dyadic intervals in the unit interval. Let $\tau$ be a rearrangement of the dyadic intervals. We study the induced operator

$$ Th_I = h_{\tau(I)}$$

where $h_I$ is the $L^{\infty}$ normalized Haar function. We find geometric conditions on $\tau$ which are necessary and sufficient for $T$ to be bounded on $BMO$. We also characterize the rearrangements of the $L^p$ normalized Haar system in $L^p.$

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 42C20, 43A17, 47B38.

Let ℝ denote the real line. Let {Tt}tєℝ be a measure preserving ergodic flow on a non atomic finite measure space (X, ℱ, μ). A nonnegative function φ on ℝ is called a weight function if ∫ℝ φ(t)dt = 1. Consider the weighted ergodic averages

of a function f X —> ℝ, where {θk} is a sequence of weight functions. Some sufficient and some necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the a.e. convergence of Akf, in particular for a special case in which

where φ is a fixed weight function and {(ak, rk)} is a sequence of pairs of real numbers such that rk > 0 for all k. These conditions are obtained by a combination of the methods of Bellow-Jones-Rosenblatt, developed to deal with moving ergodic averages, and the methods of Broise-Déniel-Derriennic, developed to deal with unbounded weight functions.