On critical orbits and sectional hyperbolicity of the nonwandering set for flows

In this note, we introduce the notion of nonuniformly sectional hyperbolic set and use it to prove that any C¹-open set which contains a residual subset of vector fields with nonuniformly sectional hyperbolic critical set also contains a residual subset of vector fields with sectional hyperbolic nonwandering set. This not only extends Theorem A of Castro [11], but using suspensions we recover it.     

Structural stability on basins for numerical methods

In this paper, we show that a flow with a hyperbolic compact attracting set is structurally stable on the basin of attraction with respect to numerical methods. The result is a generalized version of earlier results by Garay, Li, Pugh, and Shub. The proof relies heavily on the usual invariant manifold theory elaborated by Hirsch, Pugh, and Shub (1977), and by Robinson (1976).

     

Deviation property of periodic measures in C 1 non-uniformly hyperbolic systems with limit domination

In a C1 non-uniformly hyperbolic systems with limit domination, we consider the periodic measures that supported on the Pesin set and keep a distance at least δ to a hyperbolic ergodic measure μ given before. And then, we bound from top the exponential growth rate of such periodic measures by the supremum of measure theoretic entropy on a closed set.     

Dynamical systems on lattices with decaying interaction II: Hyperbolic sets and their invariant manifolds

This is the second part of the work devoted to the study of maps with decay in lattices. Here we apply the general theory developed in Fontich et al. (2011) [3] to the study of hyperbolic sets. In particular, we establish that any close enough perturbation with decay of an uncoupled lattice map with a hyperbolic set has also a hyperbolic set, with dynamics on the hyperbolic set conjugated to the corresponding of the uncoupled map. We also describe how the decay properties of the maps are inherited by the corresponding invariant manifolds.     

Nonuniform hyperbolicity for C1-generic diffeomorphisms

We study the ergodic theory of non-conservative C ¹-generic diffeomorphisms. First, we show that homoclinic classes of arbitrary diffeomorphisms exhibit ergodic measures whose supports coincide with the homoclinic class. Second, we show that generic (for the weak topology) ergodic measures of C ¹-generic diffeomorphisms are non-uniformly hyperbolic: they exhibit no zero Lyapunov exponents. Third, we extend a theorem by Sigmund on hyperbolic basic sets: every isolated transitive set Λ of any C ¹-generic diffeomorphism f exhibits many ergodic hyperbolic measures whose supports coincide with the whole set Λ.     

Finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds that share a fundamental polyhedron

It is known that the volume function for hyperbolic manifolds of dimension 3 is finite-to-one. We show that the number of nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds with the same volume can be made arbitrarily large. This is done by constructing a sequence of finite-sided finite-volume polyhedra with side-pairings that yield manifolds. In fact, we show that arbitrarily many nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds may share a fundamental polyhedron. As a by-product of our examples, we also show in a constructive way that the set of volumes of hyperbolic 4-manifolds contains the set of even integral multiples of 4π²/3. This is “half” the set of possible values for volumes, which is the integral multiples of 4π²/3 due to the Gauss-Bonnet formula Vol(M) = 4π²/3 · χ(M).     

Rigidity of Hyperbolic Sets on Surfaces

Given a hyperbolic invariant set of a diffeomorphism on a surface,it is proved that, if the holonomies are sufficiently smooth,then the diffeomorphism on the hyperbolic invariant set is rigidin the sense that it is C¹⁺ conjugate to a hyperbolic affinemodel.     

Random C 0 homeomorphism perturbations of hyperbolic sets

In this note we consider random C ⁰ homeomorphism perturbations of a hyperbolic set of a C ¹ diffeomorphism. We show that the hyperbolic set is semi-stable under such perturbations, in particular, the topological entropy will not decrease under such perturbations.     

The Cannon–Thurston map for punctured-surface groups

Let Γ be the fundamental group of a compact surface group with non-empty boundary. We suppose that Γ admits a properly discontinuous strictly type preserving action on hyperbolic 3-space such that there is a positive lower bound on the translation lengths of loxodromic elements. We describe the Cannon–Thurston map in this case. In particular, we show that there is a continuous equivariant map of the circle to the boundary of hyperbolic 3-space, where the action on the circle is obtained by taking any finite-area complete hyperbolic structure on the surface, and lifting to the boundary of hyperbolic 2-space. We deduce that the limit set is locally connected, hence a dentrite in the singly degenerate case. Moreover, we show that the Cannon–Thurston map can be described topologically as the quotient of the circle by the equivalence relations arising from the ends of the quotient 3-manifold. For closed surface bundles over the circle, this was obtained by Cannon and Thurston. Some generalisations and variations have been obtained by Minsky, Mitra, Alperin, Dicks, Porti, McMullen and Cannon. We deduce that a finitely generated kleinian group with a positive lower bound on the translation lengths of loxodromics has a locally connected limit set assuming it is connected.     

A non-autonomous flow system with Plykin type attractor

A non-autonomous flow system is introduced with an attractor of Plykin type that may serve as a base for elaboration of real systems and devices demonstrating the structurally stable chaotic dynamics. The starting point is a map on a two-dimensional sphere, consisting of four stages of continuous geometrically evident transformations. The computations indicate that in a certain parameter range the map has a uniformly hyperbolic attractor. It may be represented on a plane by means of a stereographic projection. Accounting structural stability, a modification of the model is undertaken to obtain a set of two non-autonomous differential equations of the first order with smooth coefficients. As follows from computations, it has the Plykin type attractor in the Poincaré cross-section.     

Dominated Pesin theory: convex sum of hyperbolic measures

In the uniformly hyperbolic setting it is well known that the set of all measures supported on periodic orbits is dense in the convex space of all invariant measures. In this paper we consider the converse question, in the non-uniformly hyperbolic setting: assuming that some ergodic measure converges to a convex combination of hyperbolic ergodic measures, what can we deduce about the initial measures?To every hyperbolic measure μ whose stable/unstable Oseledets splitting is dominated we associate canonically a unique class H(μ) of periodic orbits for the homoclinic relation, called its intersection class. In a dominated setting, we prove that a measure for which almost every measure in its ergodic decomposition is hyperbolic with the same index, such as the dominated splitting, is accumulated by ergodic measures if, and only if, almost all such ergodic measures have a common intersection class.We provide examples which indicate the importance of the domination assumption.     

Dynamical coherence of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms of tori isotopic to Anosov

We show that partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms of \(d\) -dimensional tori isotopic to an Anosov diffeomorphism, where the isotopy is contained in the set of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms, are dynamically coherent. Moreover, we show a global stability result, i.e. every partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism as above is leaf-conjugate to the linear one. As a consequence, we obtain intrinsic ergodicity and measure equivalence for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one-dimensional center direction that are isotopic to Anosov diffeomorphisms through such a path.     

Symbolic dynamics and Arnold diffusion

We consider hyperbolic tori of three degrees of freedom initially hyperbolic Hamiltonian systems. We prove that if the stable and unstable manifold of a hyperbolic torus intersect transversaly, then there exists a hyperbolic invariant set near a homoclinic orbit on which the dynamics is conjugated to a Bernoulli shift. The proof is based on a new geometrico-dynamical feature of partially hyperbolic systems, the transversality-torsion phenomenon, which produces complete hyperbolicity from partial hyperbolicity. We deduce the existence of infinitely many hyperbolic periodic orbits near the given torus. The relevance of these results for the instability of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems is then discussed. For a given transition chain, we construct chain of hyperbolic periodic orbits. Then we easily prove the existence of periodic orbits of arbitrarily high period close to such chain using standard results on hyperbolic sets.     

Maximal tubes under the deformations of 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds

Hodgson and Kerckhoff found a small bound on Dehn surgered 3-manifolds from hyperbolic knots not admitting hyperbolic structures using deformations of hyperbolic cone-manifolds. They asked whether the area normalized meridian length squared of maximal tubular neighborhoods of the singular locus of the cone-manifold is decreasing and that summed with the cone-angle squared is increasing as we deform the cone-angles. We confirm this near 0 cone-angles for an infinite family of hyperbolic cone-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgeries along the Whitehead link complements. The basic method rests on explicit holonomy computations using the A-polynomials and finding the maximal tubes. One of the key tools is the Taylor expansion of a geometric component of the zero set of the A-polynomial in terms of the cone-angles. We also show that a sequence of Taylor expansions for Dehn surgered manifolds converges to 1 for the limit hyperbolic manifold.     

Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on Heisenberg nilmanifolds and holonomy maps

In this note we show that all partially hyperbolic automorphisms on a 3-dimensional non-Abelian nilmanifold can be C¹$C^1$-approximated by structurally stable C^∞$C^{\infty }$-diffeomorphisms, whose chain recurrent set consists of one attractor and one repeller. In particular, all these partially hyperbolic automorphisms are not robustly transitive. As a corollary, the holonomy maps of the stable and unstable foliations of the approximating diffeomorphisms are twisted quasiperiodically forced circle homeomorphisms, which are transitive but non-minimal and satisfy certain fiberwise regularity properties.     

Existence of solutions for linear hyperbolic initial-boundary value problems in a rectangle

In a recent article, we achieved the well-posedness of linear hyperbolic initial and boundary value problems (IBVP) in a rectangle via semigroup method, and we found that there are only two elementary modes called hyperbolic and elliptic modes in the system. It seems that, there is only one set of boundary conditions for the hyperbolic mode, while there are infinitely many sets of boundary conditions for the elliptic mode, which can lead to well-posedness. In this article, we continue to consider linear hyperbolic IBVP in a rectangle in the constant coefficients case and we show that there are also infinitely many sets of boundary conditions for hyperbolic mode which will lead to the existence of a solution. We also have uniqueness in some special cases. The boundary conditions satisfy the reflection conditions introduced in Section 3, which turn out to be equivalent to the strictly dissipative conditions.     

Lipschitz equivalence of self-similar sets and hyperbolic boundaries

Kaimanovich (2003) [9] introduced the concept of augmented tree on the symbolic space of a self-similar set. It is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov, and it was shown by Lau and Wang (2009)  [12] that under the open set condition, a self-similar set can be identified with the hyperbolic boundary of the tree. In the paper, we investigate in detail a class of simple augmented trees and the Lipschitz equivalence of such trees. The main purpose is to use this to study the Lipschitz equivalence problem of the totally disconnected self-similar sets which has been undergoing some extensive development recently.     

Singular sets of planar hyperbolic billiards are regular

Many planar hyperbolic billiards are conjectured to be ergodic. This paper represents a first step towards the proof of this conjecture. The Hopf argument is a standard technique for proving the ergodicity of a smooth hyperbolic system. Under additional hypotheses, this technique also applies to certain hyperbolic systems with singularities, including hyperbolic billiards. The supplementary hypotheses concern the subset of the phase space where the system fails to be C ² differentiable. In this work, we give a detailed proof of one of these hypotheses for a large collection of planar hyperbolic billiards. Namely, we prove that the singular set and each of its iterations consist of a finite number of compact curves of class C ² with finitely many intersection points.     

Characterization of non-autonomous attractors of a perturbed infinite-dimensional gradient system

In this paper we determine the exact structure of the pullback attractors in non-autonomous problems that are perturbations of autonomous gradient systems with attractors that are the union of the unstable manifolds of a finite set of hyperbolic equilibria. We show that the pullback attractors of the perturbed systems inherit this structure, and are given as the union of the unstable manifolds of a set of hyperbolic global solutions which are the non-autonomous analogues of the hyperbolic equilibria. We also prove, again parallel to the autonomous case, that all solutions converge as t→+∞ to one of these hyperbolic global solutions. We then show how to apply these results to systems that are asymptotically autonomous as t→−∞ and as t→+∞, and use these relatively simple test cases to illustrate a discussion of possible definitions of a forwards attractor in the non-autonomous case.     

Hyperbolic Structures on the Configuration Space of Six Points in the Projective Line

The oriented configuration space X⁺₆ of six points on the real projective line is a noncompact three-dimensional manifold which admits a unique complete hyperbolic structure of finite volume with ten cusps. On the other hand, it decomposes naturally into 120 cells each of which can be interpreted as the set of equiangular hexagons with unit area. Similar hyperbolic structures can be obtained by considering nonequiangular hexagons so that the standard hyperbolic structure on X⁺₆ is at the center of a five parameter family of hyperbolic structures of finite volume. This paper contributes to investigations of the properties of this family. In particular, we exhibit two real analytic maps from the set of prescribed angles of hexagons into R¹⁰ whose components are the traces of the monodromies at the ten cusps. We show that this map has maximal rank 5 at the center.