Let ℝ+ denote the non-negative half of the real line, and let λ denote Lebesgue measure on the Borel sets of ℝn. A function φ: ℝn → ℝ+ is called a weight function if ʃℝn φ dλ = 1. Let (X, ℱ, μ) be a non-atomic, finite measure space, let ƒ: X → ℝ+, and suppose { Tν}ν∊ℝn is an ergodic, aperiodic ℝn-flow on X. We consider the weighted ergodic averages where is a sequence of weight functions. Sufficient as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for the pointwise, almost-everywhere convergence of are developed for a particular class of weight functions φk. Specifically, let {τk: ℝn → ℝn} be a sequence of measurable, non-singular maps with measurable, non-singular inverses such that the Radon-Nikodym derivatives dλ oτk /dλ and dλ oτk-1 / dλ are L∞ (ℝn), and such that τk and τ-1 map bounded sets to bounded sets. We examine convergence for the sequence where θk is an a.e.-convergent sequence of weight functions which are dominated by a fixed L1(ℝn) function with bounded support.

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.