A hypercyclic finite rank perturbation of a unitary operator

A unitary operator $V$ and a rank $2$ operator $R$ acting on a Hilbert space \H are constructed such that $V+R$ is hypercyclic. This answers affirmatively a question of Salas whether a finite rank perturbation of a hyponormal operator can be supercyclic.Comment: published in Mathematische Annale

Measuring order in the isotropic packing of elastic rods

The packing of elastic bodies has emerged as a paradigm for the study of macroscopic disordered systems. However, progress is hampered by the lack of controlled experiments. Here we consider a model experiment for the isotropic two-dimensional confinement of a rod by a central force. We seek to measure how ordered is a folded configuration and we identify two key quantities. A geometrical characterization is given by the number of superposed layers in the configuration. Using temporal modulations of the confining force, we probe the mechanical properties of the configuration and we define and measure its effective compressibility. These two quantities may be used to build a statistical framework for packed elastic systems.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Distributional chaos for linear operators

We characterize distributional chaos for linear operators on Fréchet spaces in terms of a computable condition (DCC), and also as the existence of distributionally irregular vectors. A sufficient condition for the existence of dense uniformly distributionally irregular manifolds is presented, which is very general and can be applied to many classes of operators. Distributional chaos is also analyzed in connection with frequent hypercyclicity, and the particular cases of weighted shifts and composition operators are given as an illustration of the previous results. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.The fourth author was supported in part by MEC and FEDER, Project MTM2010-14909.Bernardes, NC.; Bonilla, A.; Müller, V.; Peris Manguillot, A. (2013). Distributional chaos for linear operators. Journal of Functional Analysis. 265(9):2143-2163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2013.06.019S21432163265

Strong mixing measures for linear operators and frequent hypercyclicity

We construct strongly mixing invariant measures with full support for operators on F-spaces which satisfy the Frequent Hypercyclicity Criterion. For unilateral backward shifts on sequence spaces, a slight modification shows that one can even obtain exact invariant measures. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.This work was supported in part by MEC and FEDER, Project MTM2010-14909, and by CV, Project PROMETEO/2008/101. The first author was also supported by a grant from the FPU Program of MEC. We thank the referee whose detailed report led to an improvement in the presentation of this work.Murillo Arcila, M.; Peris Manguillot, A. (2013). Strong mixing measures for linear operators and frequent hypercyclicity. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 398(2):462-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2012.08.050S462465398

Finite-distance singularities in the tearing of thin sheets

We investigate the interaction between two cracks propagating in a thin sheet. Two different experimental geometries allow us to tear sheets by imposing an out-of-plane shear loading. We find that two tears converge along self-similar paths and annihilate each other. These finite-distance singularities display geometry-dependent similarity exponents, which we retrieve using scaling arguments based on a balance between the stretching and the bending of the sheet close to the tips of the cracks.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

On the minimal number of matrices which form a locally hypercyclic, non-hypercyclic tuple

In this paper we extend the notion of a locally hypercyclic operator to that of a locally hypercyclic tuple of operators. We then show that the class of hypercyclic tuples of operators forms a proper subclass to that of locally hypercyclic tuples of operators. What is rather remarkable is that in every finite dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, a pair of commuting matrices exists which forms a locally hypercyclic, non-hypercyclic tuple. This comes in direct contrast to the case of hypercyclic tuples where the minimal number of matrices required for hypercyclicity is related to the dimension of the vector space. In this direction we prove that the minimal number of diagonal matrices required to form a hypercyclic tuple on $\mathbb{R}^n$ is $n+1$, thus complementing a recent result due to Feldman.Comment: 15 pages, title changed, section for infinite dimensional spaces adde

Recurrence properties of hypercyclic operators

[EN] We generalize the notions of hypercyclic operators, U-frequently hypercyclic operators and frequently hypercyclic operators by introducing a new concept in linear dynamics, namely A-hypercyclicity. We then state an A-hypercyclicity criterion, inspired by the hypercyclicity criterion and the frequent hypercyclicity criterion, and we show that this criterion characterizes the A-hypercyclicity for weighted shifts. We also investigate which density properties can the sets N(x, U) = {n is an element of N; T-n x is an element of U} have for a given hypercyclic operator, and we study the new notion of reiteratively hypercyclic operators.This work is supported in part by MEC and FEDER, Project MTM2013-47093-P, and by GVA, Projects PROMETEOII/2013/013 and ACOMP/2015/005. The second author was a postdoctoral researcher of the Belgian FNRS.Bès, JP.; Menet, Q.; Peris Manguillot, A.; Puig-De Dios, Y. (2016). Recurrence properties of hypercyclic operators. Mathematische Annalen. 366(1):545-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1336-3S5455723661Badea, C., Grivaux, S.: Unimodular eigenvalues, uniformly distributed sequences and linear dynamics. Adv. Math. 211, 766–793 (2007)Bayart, F., Grivaux, S.: Frequently hypercyclic operators. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358, 5083–5117 (2006)Bayart, F., Grivaux, S.: Invariant Gaussian measures for operators on Banach spaces and linear dynamics. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 94, 181–210 (2007)Bayart, F., Matheron, É.: Dynamics of linear operators, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 179. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2009)Bayart, F., Matheron, É.: (Non-)weakly mixing operators and hypercyclicity sets. Ann. Inst. Fourier 59, 1–35 (2009)Bayart, F., Ruzsa, I.: Difference sets and frequently hypercyclic weighted shifts. Ergodic Theory Dynam. Syst. 35, 691–709 (2015)Bergelson, V.: Ergodic Ramsey Theory- an update, Ergodic Theory of $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ Z d -actions. Lond. Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser. 28, 1–61 (1996)Bernal-González, L., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: The Hypercyclicity Criterion for sequences of operators. Studia Math. 157, 17–32 (2003)Bès, J., Peris, A.: Hereditarily hypercyclic operators. J. Funct. Anal. 167, 94–112 (1999)Bonilla, A., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Frequently hypercyclic operators and vectors. Ergodic Theory Dynam. Syst. 27, 383–404 (2007)Bonilla, A., Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Erratum: Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 29, 1993–1994 (2009)Chan, K., Seceleanu, I.: Hypercyclicity of shifts as a zero-one law of orbital limit points. J. Oper. Theory 67, 257–277 (2012)Costakis, G., Sambarino, M.: Topologically mixing hypercyclic operators. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132, 385–389 (2004)Furstenberg, H.: Recurrence in ergodic theory and combinatorial number theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1981)Giuliano, R., Grekos, G., Mišík, L.: Open problems on densities II, Diophantine Analysis and Related Fields 2010. AIP Conf. Proc. 1264, 114–128 (2010)Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G.: Hypercyclic and chaotic weighted shifts. Studia Math. 139, 47–68 (2000)Grosse-Erdmann, K.-G., Peris, A.: Frequently dense orbits. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 341, 123–128 (2005)Grosse-Erdmann, K.G., Peris, A.: Weakly mixing operators on topological vector spaces, Rev. R. Acad. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. Ser. A Math. RACSAM, 104, 413–426 (2010)Grosse-Erdmann, K.G., Peris Manguillot, A.: Linear chaos, Universitext. Springer, London (2011)Menet, Q.: Linear chaos and frequent hypercyclicity. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. arXiv:1410.7173Puig, Y.: Linear dynamics and recurrence properties defined via essential idempotents of $$\beta {\mathbb{N}}$$ β N (2014) arXiv:1411.7729 (preprint)Salas, H.N.: Hypercyclic weighted shifts. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347, 993–1004 (1995)Salat, T., Toma, V.: A classical Olivier’s theorem and statistical convergence. Ann. Math. Blaise Pascal 10, 305–313 (2003)Shkarin, S.: On the spectrum of frequently hypercyclic operators. Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, 123–134 (2009

Almost sure-sign convergence of Hardy-type Dirichlet series

[EN] Hartman proved in 1939 that the width of the largest possible strip in the complex plane on which a Dirichlet series is uniformly a.s.- sign convergent (i.e., converges uniformly for almost all sequences of signs epsilon (n) = +/- 1) but does not convergent absolutely, equals 1/2. We study this result from a more modern point of view within the framework of so-called Hardytype Dirichlet series with values in a Banach space.Supported by CONICET-PIP 11220130100329CO, PICT 2015-2299 and UBACyT 20020130100474BA. Supported by MICINN MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P. Supported by MICINN MTM2017-83262-C2-1-P and UPV-SP20120700.Carando, D.; Defant, A.; Sevilla Peris, P. (2018). Almost sure-sign convergence of Hardy-type Dirichlet series. Journal d Analyse Mathématique. 135(1):225-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11854-018-0034-yS2252471351A. Aleman, J.-F. Olsen, and E. Saksman, Fourier multipliers for Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 16 (2014), 4368–4378.R. Balasubramanian, B. Calado, and H. Queffélec, The Bohr inequality for ordinary Dirichlet series Studia Math. 175 (2006), 285–304.F. Bayart, Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series and their composition operators, Monatsh. Math. 136 (2002), 203–236.F. Bayart, A. Defant, L. Frerick, M. Maestre, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Monomial series expansion of Hp-functions and multipliers ofHp-Dirichlet series, Math. Ann. 368 (2017), 837–876.F. Bayart, D. Pellegrino, and J. B. Seoane-Sepúlveda, The Bohr radius of the n-dimensional polydisk is equivalent to $$\sqrt {\left( {\log n} \right)/n}$$ ( log n ) / n , Adv. Math. 264 (2014), 726–746.F. Bayart, H. Queffélec, and K. Seip, Approximation numbers of composition operators on Hp spaces of Dirichlet series, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 66 (2016), 551–588.H. F. Bohnenblust and E. Hille. On the absolute convergence of Dirichlet series, Ann. of Math. (2) 32 (1931), 600–622.H. Bohr, Über die Bedeutung der Potenzreihen unendlich vieler Variablen in der Theorie der Dirichlet–schen Reihen $$\sum {\frac{{{a_n}}}{{{n^s}}}}$$ ∑ a n n s , Nachr. Ges.Wiss. Göttingen, Math. Phys. Kl., 1913, pp. 441–488.D. Carando, A. Defant, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Bohr’s absolute convergence problem for Hp- Dirichlet series in Banach spaces, Anal. PDE 7 (2014), 513–527.D. Carando, A. Defant, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Some polynomial versions of cotype and applications, J. Funct. Anal. 270 (2016), 68–87.B. J. Cole and T. W. Gamelin, Representing measures and Hardy spaces for the infinite polydisk algebra, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 53 (1986), 112–142.R. de la Bretèche. Sur l’ordre de grandeur des polynômes de Dirichlet, Acta Arith. 134 (2008), 141–148.A. Defant, L. Frerick, J. Ortega-Cerdà, M. Ounäies, and K. Seip, The Bohnenblust-Hille inequality for homogeneous polynomials is hypercontractive, Ann. of Math. (2) 174 (2011), 485–497.A. Defant, D. García, M. Maestre, and D. Pérez-García, Bohr’s strip for vector valued Dirichlet series, Math. Ann. 342 (2008), 533–555.A. Defant, M. Maestre, and U. Schwarting, Bohr radii of vector valued holomorphic functions, Adv. Math. 231 (2012), 2837–2857.A. Defant and A. Pérez, Hardy spaces of vector-valued Dirichlet series, StudiaMath. (to appear), 2018 DOI: 10.4064/sm170303-26-7.A. Defant, U. Schwarting, and P. Sevilla-Peris, Estimates for vector valued Dirichlet polynomials, Monatsh. Math. 175 (2014), 89–116.J. Diestel, H. Jarchow, and A. Tonge, Absolutely Summing Operators, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.P. Hartman, On Dirichlet series involving random coefficients, Amer. J. Math. 61 (1939), 955–964.H. Hedenmalm, P. Lindqvist, and K. Seip, A Hilbert space of Dirichlet series and systems of dilated functions in L2(0, 1), Duke Math. J. 86 (1997), 1–37.A. Hildebrand, and G. Tenenbaum, Integers without large prime factors, J. Thor. Nombres Bordeaux 5 (1993), 411–484.S. V. Konyagin and H. Queffélec, The translation 1/2 in the theory of Dirichlet series, Real Anal. Exchange 27 (2001/02) 155–175.J. Lindenstrauss and L. Tzafriri, Classical Banach Spaces. II, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1979.B. Maurizi and H. Queffélec, Some remarks on the algebra of bounded Dirichlet series, J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 16 (2010), 676–692.H. Queffélec, H. Bohr’s vision of ordinary Dirichlet series; old and new results, J. Anal. 3 (1995), 43–60.H. Queffélec and M. Queffélec, Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2013.G. Tenenbaum, Introduction to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995

Impact of pump OSNR on noise figure for fiber-optical parametric amplifiers

Electrical measurements of the noise figure of a fiberoptical parametric amplifier are presented and compared with optical measurements. The transfer of pump noise by four-wave mixing was clearly demonstrated. A numerical model was developed to simulate the transfer of pump noise and validated by these measurements. Using this model, we determine, for practical systems, a minimum required pump optical signal-to-noise ratio of 65 dB

Impact of pump phase modulation on system performance of fibre-optical parametric amplifiers

Bit error rate induced in a parametric amplifier has been measured with a 10 Gbit=s line rate. It is shown experimentally that the phase modulation of the pump distorts the mark level of the channel and may cause system penalty. Different phase modulation schemes have been compared