Reducibility of cocycles under a Brjuno-R\"ussmann arithmetical condition

The arithmetics of the frequency and of the rotation number play a fundamental role in the study of reducibility of analytic quasi-periodic cocycles which are sufficiently close to a constant. In this paper we show how to generalize previous works by L.H.Eliasson which deal with the diophantine case so as to implement a Brjuno-Russmann arithmetical condition both on the frequency and on the rotation number. Our approach adapts the Poschel-Russmann KAM method, which was previously used in the problem of linearization of vector fields, to the problem of reducing cocycles

A quasianalyticity property for monogenic solutions of small divisor problems

We discuss the quasianalytic properties of various spaces of functions suitable for one-dimensional small divisor problems. These spaces are formed of functions C^1-holomorphic on certain compact sets K_j of the Riemann sphere (in the Whitney sense), as is the solution of a linear or non-linear small divisor problem when viewed as a function of the multiplier (the intersection of K_j with the unit circle is defined by a Diophantine-type condition, so as to avoid the divergence caused by roots of unity). It turns out that a kind of generalized analytic continuation through the unit circle is possible under suitable conditions on the K_j's

Bounded type interval exchange maps

Irrational numbers of bounded type have several equivalent characterizations. They have bounded partial quotients in terms of arithmetic characterization and in the dynamics of the circle rotation, the rescaled recurrence time to $r$-ball of the initial point is bounded below. In this paper, we consider how the bounded type condition of irrational is generalized into interval exchange maps.Comment: 12 page

Potts models on hierarchical lattices and Renormalization Group dynamics

We prove that the generator of the renormalization group of Potts models on hierarchical lattices can be represented by a rational map acting on a finite-dimensional product of complex projective spaces. In this framework we can also consider models with an applied external magnetic field and multiple-spin interactions. We use recent results regarding iteration of rational maps in several complex variables to show that, for some class of hierarchical lattices, Lee-Yang and Fisher zeros belong to the unstable set of the renormalization map.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures; v3 revised, some issues correcte

Coupling the Yoccoz-Birkeland population model with price dynamics: chaotic livestock commodities market cycles

We propose a new model for the time evolution of livestock commodities which exhibits endogenous deterministic stochastic behaviour. The model is based on the Yoccoz-Birkeland integral equation, a model first developed for studying the time-evolution of single species with high average fertility, a relatively short mating season and density dependent reproduction rates. This equation is then coupled with a differential equation describing the price of a livestock commodity driven by the unbalance between its demand and supply. At its birth the cattle population is split into two parts: reproducing females and cattle for butchery. The relative amount of the two is determined by the spot price of the meat. We prove the existence of an attractor and we investigate numerically its properties: the strange attractor existing for the original Yoccoz-Birkeland model is persistent but its chaotic behaviour depends also from the price evolution in an essential way.Comment: 26 pages, 19 figure

The cohomological equation for Roth type interval exchange maps

We exhibit an explicit full measure class of minimal interval exchange maps T for which the cohomological equation $\Psi -\Psi\circ T=\Phi$ has a bounded solution $\Psi$ provided that the datum $\Phi$ belongs to a finite codimension subspace of the space of functions having on each interval a derivative of bounded variation. The class of interval exchange maps is characterized in terms of a diophantine condition of ``Roth type'' imposed to an acceleration of the Rauzy--Veech--Zorich continued fraction expansion associated to T. CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The continued fraction algorithm for interval exchange maps 1.1 Interval exchnge maps 1.2 The continued fraction algorithm 1.3 Roth type interval exchange maps 2. The cohomological equation 2.1 The theorem of Gottschalk and Hedlund 2.2 Special Birkhoff sums 2.3 Estimates for functions of bounded variation 2.4 Primitives of functions of bounded variation 3. Suspensions of interval exchange maps 3.1 Suspension data 3.2 Construction of a Riemann surface 3.3 Compactification of $M_\zeta^*$ 3.4 The cohomological equation for higher smoothness 4. Proof of full measure for Roth type 4.1 The basic operation of the algorithm for suspensions 4.2 The Teichm\"uller flow 4.3 The absolutely continuous invariant measure 4.4 Integrability of $\log\Vert Z_{(1)}\Vert$ 4.5 Conditions (b) and (c) have full measure 4.6 The main step 4.7 Condition (a) has full measure 4.8 Proof of the Proposition Appendix A Roth--type conditions in a concrete family of i.e.m. Appendix B A non--uniquely ergodic i.e.m. satsfying condition (a) ReferencesComment: 64 pages, 4 figures (jpeg files