We study the dynamics of Blaschke products in two dimensions, particularly the rates of growth of the degrees of iterates and the corresponding implications for the ergodic properties of the map.
In 1985, Boshernitzan showed that a minimal (sub)shift satisfying a linear block growth condition must have a bounded number of ergodic probability measures. Recently, this bound was shown to be sharp through examples constructed by Cyr and Kra. In this paper, we show that under the stronger assumption of eventually constant growth, an improved bound exists. To this end, we introduce special Rauzy graphs. Variants of the well-known Rauzy graphs from symbolic dynamics, these graphs provide an explicit description of how a Rauzy graph for words of length n relates to the one for words of length …
It was shown by S. Kalikow and B. Weiss that, given a measure-preserving action of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ on a probability space $X$ and a nonnegative measurable function $f$ on $X$, the probability that the sequence of ergodic averages $$ \frac 1 {(2k+1)^d} \sum\limits_{g \in [-k,\dots,k]^d} f(g \cdot x) $$ has at least $n$ fluctuations across an interval $(α,β)$ can be bounded from above by $c_1 c_2^n$ for some universal constants $c_1 \in \mathbb{R}$ and $c_2 \in (0,1)$, which depend only on $d,α,β$. The purpose of this article is to generalize this result to measure-preserving actions of groups of…
A volume growth-based proof of the Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem for Banach spaces is presented, following the approach of Ruelle for cocycles acting on a Hilbert space. As a consequence, we obtain a volume growth interpretation for the Lyapunov exponents of a Banach space cocycle.
We prove that a rank one transformation satisfying a condition called restricted growth is a mixing transformation if and only if the spacer sequence for the transformation is uniformly ergodic. Uniform ergodicity is a generalization of the notion of ergodicity for sequences in the sense that the mean ergodic theorem holds for what we call dynamical sequences. In particular, Adams' class of staircase transformations and Ornstein's class constructed using ``random spacers'' have both restricted growth and uniformly ergodic spacer sequences.
The semi-invertible version of Oseledets' multiplicative ergodic theorem providing a decomposition of the underlying state space of a random linear dynamical system into fast and slow spaces is deduced for a strongly measurable cocycle on a separable Banach space. This work represents a significantly simplified means of obtaining the result, using measurable growth estimates on subspaces for linear operators combined with a modified version of Kingman's subadditive ergodic theorem.
We study the rate of growth of ergodic sums along a sequence (a_n) of times: S_N f(x)=f(T^{a_1}x) + ... + f(T^{a_N}x). We characterize the maximal rate of growth of these ergodic sums and identify a number of sequences such as (2^n) that achieve this rate of growth. We also return to Khintchine's strong uniform distribution Conjecture which stated that the averages (1/N)(f(x)+f(2x mod 1)+...+f(Nx mod 1)) converge pointwise almost everywhere to \int f for an integrable function on [0,1). We give an elementary counterexample to this conjecture, showing that divergence occurs at the maximal rate.…
We study mean convergence of multiple ergodic averages, where the iterates arise from smooth functions of polynomial growth that belong to a Hardy field. Our results include all logarithmico-exponential functions of polynomial growth, such as the functions $t^{3/2}, t\log t$ and $e^{\sqrt{\log t}}$. We show that if all non-trivial linear combinations of the functions $a_1,...,a_k$ stay logarithmically away from rational polynomials, then the $L^2$-limit of the ergodic averages $\frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N}f_1(T^{\lfloor{a_1(n)}\rfloor}x)\cdots f_k(T^{\lfloor{a_k(n)}\rfloor}x)$ exists and is equa…
We consider area--preserving diffeomorphisms on tori with zero entropy. We classify ergodic area--preserving diffeomorphisms of the 3--torus for which the sequence $\{Df^n\}_{n\in{\Bbb N}}$ has polynomial growth. Roughly speaking, the main theorem says that every ergodic area--preserving $C^2$--diffeomorphism with polynomial uniform growth of the derivative is $C^2$--conjugate to a 2--steps skew product of the form \[\tor^3\ni(x_1,x_2,x_3)\mapsto (x_1+α,\ep x_2+β(x_1),x_3+γ(x_1,x_2))\in\tor^3,\] where $\ep=\pm 1$. We also indicate why there is no 4--dimensional analogue of the above result. Ra…
Can elliptic islands contribute to sustained energy growth as parameters of a Hamiltonian system slowly vary with time? In this paper we show that a mushroom billiard with a periodically oscillating boundary accelerates the particle inside it exponentially fast. We provide an estimate for the rate of acceleration. Our numerical experiments confirms the theory. We suggest that a similar mechanism applies to general systems with mixed phase space.
We show that for any countable amenable group action, along Følner sequences that have for any $c>1$ a two sided $c$-tempered tail, one have universal estimate for the probability that there are $n$ fluctuations in the ergodic averages of $L^{\infty}$ functions, and this estimate gives exponential decay in $n$. Any two-sided Følner sequence can be thinned out to satisfy the above property, and in particular, any countable amenble group admits such a sequence. This extends results of S. Kalikow and B. Weiss for $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ actions and of N. Moriakov for actions of groups with polynomial gr…
For a large class of transitive non-hyperbolic systems, we construct nonhyperbolic ergodic measures with entropy arbitrarily close to its maximal possible value. The systems we consider are partially hyperbolic with one-dimension central direction for which there are positive entropy ergodic measures whose central Lyapunov exponent is negative, zero, or positive. We construct ergodic measures with zero central Lyapunov exponent whose entropy is positive and arbitrarily close to the topological entropy of the set of points with central Lyapunov exponent zero. This provides a restricted variatio…
We study rational functions satisfying summability conditions - a family of weak conditions on the expansion along the critical orbits. Assuming their appropriate versions, we derive many nice properties: There exists a unique, ergodic, and non-atomic conformal measure with exponent equal to the Hausdorff dimension of the Julia set. There is an absolutely continuous invariant measure with respect to this conformal measure. The Minkowski dimension of the Julia set is strictly less than 2. Either the Julia set is the whole sphere, or the dynamics is unstable. For such polynomials and Blaschke pr…
We consider implications of dynamical Borel-Cantelli lemmas for rates of growth of Birkhoff sums of non-integrable observables $φ(x) = d(x,p)^{-k}$, $k>0$, on ergodic dynamical systems $(T,X,μ)$ where $μ(X) = 1$. Some general results are given as well as some more concrete examples involving non-uniformly expanding maps, intermittent type maps as well as uniformly hyperbolic systems.
For a sequence of sub-additive potentials, Dai [Optimal state points of the sub-additive ergodic theorem, Nonlinearity, 24 (2011), 1565-1573] gave a method of choosing state points with negative growth rates for an ergodic dynamical system. This paper generalizes Dai's result to the non-ergodic case, and proves that under some mild additional hypothesis, one can choose points with negative growth rates from a positive Lebesgue measure set, even if the system does not preserve any measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.
Pointwise ergodic theorems along sequences of intermediate growth
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences(波兰科学院数学研究所);Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław(弗罗茨瓦夫大学数学研究所);Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University(罗格斯大学数学系);Department of Mathematics, University of Memphis(孟菲斯大学数学系)
Consider a class of skew product transformations consisting of an ergodic or a periodic transformation on a probability space (M, B, m) in the base and a semigroup of transformations on another probability space (W,F,P) in the fibre. Under suitable mixing conditions for the fibre transformation, we show that the properties ergodicity, weakly mixing, and strongly mixing are passed on from the base transformation to the skew product (with respect to the product measure). We derive ergodic theorems with respect to the skew product on the product space. The main aim of this paper is to establish u…
In this note we employ infinite ergodic theory to derive estimates for the algebraic growth rate of the Poincaré series for a Kleinian group at its critical exponent of convergence.
To understand the mechanisms underlying species coexistence, ecologists often study invasion growth rates of theoretical and data-driven models. These growth rates correspond to average per-capita growth rates of one species with respect to an ergodic measure supporting other species. In the ecological literature, coexistence often is equated with the invasion growth rates being positive. Intuitively, positive invasion growth rates ensure that species recover from being rare. To provide a mathematically rigorous framework for this approach, we prove theorems that answer two questions: (i) When…
We study the limiting behavior of multiple ergodic averages involving sequences of integers that satisfy some regularity conditions and have polynomial growth. We show that for "typical" choices of Hardy field functions $a(t)$ with polynomial growth, the averages $\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N f_1(T^{[a(n)]}x)\cdot...\cdot f_\ell(T^{\ell [a(n)]}x)$ converge in the mean and we determine their limit. For example, this is the case if $a(t)=t^{3/2}, t\log{t},$ or $t^2+(\log{t})^2$. Furthermore, if ${a_1(t),...,a_\ell(t)}$ is a "typical" family of logarithmico-exponential functions of polynomial growth, …
We study variational principles for metric mean dimension. First we prove that in the variational principle of Lindenstrauss and Tsukamoto it suffices to take supremum over ergodic measures. Second we derive a variational principle for metric mean dimension involving growth rates of measure-theoretic entropy of partitions decreasing in diameter which holds in full generality and in particular does not necessitate the assumption of tame growth of covering numbers. The expressions involved are a dynamical version of Renyi information dimension. Third we derive a new expression for Geiger-Koch in…