79 research outputs found
Positive Measure Spectrum for Schroedinger Operators with Periodic Magnetic Fields
We study Schroedinger operators with periodic magnetic field in Euclidean
2-space, in the case of irrational magnetic flux. Positive measure Cantor
spectrum is generically expected in the presence of an electric potential. We
show that, even without electric potential, the spectrum has positive measure
if the magnetic field is a perturbation of a constant one.Comment: 17 page
An inviscid dyadic model of turbulence: the fixed point and Onsager's conjecture
Properties of an infinite system of nonlinearly coupled ordinary differential
equations are discussed. This system models some properties present in the
equations of motion for an inviscid fluid such as the skew symmetry and the
3-dimensional scaling of the quadratic nonlinearity. It is proved that the
system with forcing has a unique equilibrium and that every solution blows up
in finite time in -norm. Onsager's conjecture is confirmed for the
model system
On products of skew rotations
Let , be two time-independent Hamiltonians with one
degree of freedom and , be the one-parametric groups of
shifts along the orbits of Hamiltonian systems generated by , . In
some problems of population genetics there appear the transformations of the
plane having the form under some
conditions on , . We study in this paper asymptotical properties of
trajectories of .Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
A generalization of Hausdorff dimension applied to Hilbert cubes and Wasserstein spaces
A Wasserstein spaces is a metric space of sufficiently concentrated
probability measures over a general metric space. The main goal of this paper
is to estimate the largeness of Wasserstein spaces, in a sense to be precised.
In a first part, we generalize the Hausdorff dimension by defining a family of
bi-Lipschitz invariants, called critical parameters, that measure largeness for
infinite-dimensional metric spaces. Basic properties of these invariants are
given, and they are estimated for a naturel set of spaces generalizing the
usual Hilbert cube. In a second part, we estimate the value of these new
invariants in the case of some Wasserstein spaces, as well as the dynamical
complexity of push-forward maps. The lower bounds rely on several embedding
results; for example we provide bi-Lipschitz embeddings of all powers of any
space inside its Wasserstein space, with uniform bound and we prove that the
Wasserstein space of a d-manifold has "power-exponential" critical parameter
equal to d.Comment: v2 Largely expanded version, as reflected by the change of title; all
part I on generalized Hausdorff dimension is new, as well as the embedding of
Hilbert cubes into Wasserstein spaces. v3 modified according to the referee
final remarks ; to appear in Journal of Topology and Analysi
Space-Time Complexity in Hamiltonian Dynamics
New notions of the complexity function C(epsilon;t,s) and entropy function
S(epsilon;t,s) are introduced to describe systems with nonzero or zero Lyapunov
exponents or systems that exhibit strong intermittent behavior with
``flights'', trappings, weak mixing, etc. The important part of the new notions
is the first appearance of epsilon-separation of initially close trajectories.
The complexity function is similar to the propagator p(t0,x0;t,x) with a
replacement of x by the natural lengths s of trajectories, and its introduction
does not assume of the space-time independence in the process of evolution of
the system. A special stress is done on the choice of variables and the
replacement t by eta=ln(t), s by xi=ln(s) makes it possible to consider
time-algebraic and space-algebraic complexity and some mixed cases. It is shown
that for typical cases the entropy function S(epsilon;xi,eta) possesses
invariants (alpha,beta) that describe the fractal dimensions of the space-time
structures of trajectories. The invariants (alpha,beta) can be linked to the
transport properties of the system, from one side, and to the Riemann
invariants for simple waves, from the other side. This analog provides a new
meaning for the transport exponent mu that can be considered as the speed of a
Riemann wave in the log-phase space of the log-space-time variables. Some other
applications of new notions are considered and numerical examples are
presented.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figure
Entropy of geometric structures
We give a notion of entropy for general gemetric structures, which
generalizes well-known notions of topological entropy of vector fields and
geometric entropy of foliations, and which can also be applied to singular
objects, e.g. singular foliations, singular distributions, and Poisson
structures. We show some basic properties for this entropy, including the
\emph{additivity property}, analogous to the additivity of Clausius--Boltzmann
entropy in physics. In the case of Poisson structures, entropy is a new
invariant of dynamical nature, which is related to the transverse structure of
the characteristic foliation by symplectic leaves.Comment: The results of this paper were announced in a talk last year in IMPA,
Rio (Poisson 2010
Abstract polymer models with general pair interactions
A convergence criterion of cluster expansion is presented in the case of an
abstract polymer system with general pair interactions (i.e. not necessarily
hard core or repulsive). As a concrete example, the low temperature disordered
phase of the BEG model with infinite range interactions, decaying polynomially
as with , is studied.Comment: 19 pages. Corrected statement for the stability condition (2.3) and
modified section 3.1 of the proof of theorem 1 consistently with (2.3). Added
a reference and modified a sentence at the end of sec. 2.
Isoperiodic deformations of the acoustic operator and periodic solutions of the Harry Dym equation
We consider the problem of describing the possible spectra of an acoustic
operator with a periodic finite-gap density. We construct flows on the moduli
space of algebraic Riemann surfaces that preserve the periods of the
corresponding operator. By a suitable extension of the phase space, these
equations can be written with quadratic irrationalities.Comment: 15 page
Holder continuity of absolutely continuous spectral measures for one-frequency Schrodinger operators
We establish sharp results on the modulus of continuity of the distribution
of the spectral measure for one-frequency Schrodinger operators with
Diophantine frequencies in the region of absolutely continuous spectrum. More
precisely, we establish 1/2-Holder continuity near almost reducible energies
(an essential support of absolutely continuous spectrum). For
non-perturbatively small potentials (and for the almost Mathieu operator with
subcritical coupling), our results apply for all energies.Comment: 16 page
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