Empirical central limit theorems for ergodic automorphisms of the torus

Abstract: Let T be an ergodic automorphism of the d-dimensional torus T^d, and f be a continuous function from T^d to R^l. On the probability space T^d equipped with the Lebesgue-Haar measure, we prove the weak convergence of the sequential empirical process of the sequence (f o T^i)_{i \geq 1} under some mild conditions on the modulus of continuity of f. The proofs are based on new limit theorems and new inequalities for non-adapted sequences, and on new estimates of the conditional expectations of f with respect to a natural filtration.