400 research outputs found
Generic Continuous Spectrum for Ergodic Schr"odinger Operators
We consider discrete Schr"odinger operators on the line with potentials
generated by a minimal homeomorphism on a compact metric space and a continuous
sampling function. We introduce the concepts of topological and metric
repetition property. Assuming that the underlying dynamical system satisfies
one of these repetition properties, we show using Gordon's Lemma that for a
generic continuous sampling function, the associated Schr"odinger operators
have no eigenvalues in a topological or metric sense, respectively. We present
a number of applications, particularly to shifts and skew-shifts on the torus.Comment: 14 page
On closing for flows on 2-manifolds
For some full measure subset B of the set of iet's (i.e. interval exchange
transformations) the following is satisfied: Let X be a , , vector field, with finitely many singularities, on a compact
orientable surface M. Given a nontrivial recurrent point of X, the
holonomy map around p is semi-conjugate to an iet If
then there exists a vector field Y, arbitrarily close to X, in
the topology, such that Y has a closed trajectory passing through p.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Recurrence in generic staircases
The straight-line flow on almost every staircase and on almost every square
tiled staircase is recurrent. For almost every square tiled staircase the set
of periodic orbits is dense in the phase space
Integrability of one degree of freedom symplectic maps with polar singularities
In this paper, we treat symplectic difference equations with one degree of
freedom. For such cases, we resolve the relation between that the dynamics on
the two dimensional phase space is reduced to on one dimensional level sets by
a conserved quantity and that the dynamics is integrable, under some
assumptions. The process which we introduce is related to interval exchange
transformations.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
A series of coverings of the regular n-gon
We define an infinite series of translation coverings of Veech's double-n-gon
for odd n greater or equal to 5 which share the same Veech group. Additionally
we give an infinite series of translation coverings with constant Veech group
of a regular n-gon for even n greater or equal to 8. These families give rise
to explicit examples of infinite translation surfaces with lattice Veech group.Comment: A missing case in step 1 in the proof of Thm. 1 b was added. (To
appear in Geometriae Dedicata.
Borel-Cantelli sequences
A sequence in is called Borel-Cantelli (BC) if
for all non-increasing sequences of positive real numbers with
the set
has full Lebesgue measure. (To put it informally, BC
sequences are sequences for which a natural converse to the Borel-Cantelli
Theorem holds).
The notion of BC sequences is motivated by the Monotone Shrinking Target
Property for dynamical systems, but our approach is from a geometric rather
than dynamical perspective. A sufficient condition, a necessary condition and a
necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence to be BC are established. A
number of examples of BC and not BC sequences are presented.
The property of a sequence to be BC is a delicate diophantine property. For
example, the orbits of a pseudo-Anosoff IET (interval exchange transformation)
are BC while the orbits of a "generic" IET are not.
The notion of BC sequences is extended to more general spaces.Comment: 20 pages. Some proofs clarifie
Invariant sets for discontinuous parabolic area-preserving torus maps
We analyze a class of piecewise linear parabolic maps on the torus, namely
those obtained by considering a linear map with double eigenvalue one and
taking modulo one in each component. We show that within this two parameter
family of maps, the set of noninvertible maps is open and dense. For cases
where the entries in the matrix are rational we show that the maximal invariant
set has positive Lebesgue measure and we give bounds on the measure. For
several examples we find expressions for the measure of the invariant set but
we leave open the question as to whether there are parameters for which this
measure is zero.Comment: 19 pages in Latex (with epsfig,amssymb,graphics) with 5 figures in
eps; revised version: section 2 rewritten, new example and picture adde
Periodic Orbits in Polygonal Billiards
We review some properties of periodic orbit families in polygonal billiards
and discuss in particular a sum rule that they obey. In addition, we provide
algorithms to determine periodic orbit families and present numerical results
that shed new light on the proliferation law and its variation with the genus
of the invariant surface. Finally, we deal with correlations in the length
spectrum and find that long orbits display Poisson fluctuations.Comment: 30 pages (Latex) including 11 figure
Sum of Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle with respect to the Teichmuller geodesic flow
We compute the sum of the positive Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle
with respect to the Teichmuller geodesic flow. The computation is based on the
analytic Riemann-Roch Theorem and uses a comparison of determinants of flat and
hyperbolic Laplacians when the underlying Riemann surface degenerates.Comment: Minor corrections. To appear in Publications mathematiques de l'IHE
The concentration and control of cytoplasmic free inorganic pyrophosphate in rat liver in vivo
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