Cancelling periodic points

We prove that a self map of a PL-manifold of dimension is homotopic to a map with no periodic points of period n iff the Nielsen numbers (k divides n) disappear. Received: 15 December 1999 / Accepted: 25 September 2000 / Published online: 18 June 2001     

真拟弱几乎周期点和拟正则点

T为紧致度量空间X上的连续映射,M（X）为X上所有Borel概率测度.设x∈X,记Mx（T）为概率测度序列{1n∑n 1i=0δTi（x）}在M（X）中的极限点的集合,其中δx表示支撑集是{x}的点测度.记W（T）和QW（T）分别为T的弱几乎周期点和拟弱几乎周期点集.本文证明,如果（X,T）非平凡且满足specifcation性质,则存在x,y∈QW（T）／W（T）（称为真拟弱几乎周期点）,分别满足μ∈Mx（T）,x∈Supp（μ）和ν∈My（T）,y∈/Supp（ν）,回答了周作领等提出的公开问题.Mx（T）在弱拓扑中是紧致连通集,所以,要么是单点集,要么是不可数集.如果x∈QW（T）／W（T）,则Mx（T）是不可数集.一个自然的问题是,怎么刻画M x（T）是单点集的点x（这时x称为拟正则点）.本文给出M x（T）是单点集的充要条件.     

On quasi-weakly almost periodic points

The core problem of dynamical systems is to study the asymptotic behaviors of orbits and their topological structures. It is well known that the orbits with certain recurrence and generating ergodic (or invariant) measures are important, such orbits form a full measure set for all invariant measures of the system, its closure is called the measure center of the system. To investigate this set, Zhou introduced the notions of weakly almost periodic point and quasi-weakly almost periodic point in 1990s, and presented some open problems on complexity of discrete dynamical systems in 2004. One of the open problems is as follows: for a quasi-weakly almost periodic point but not weakly almost periodic, is there an invariant measure generated by its orbit such that the support of this measure is equal to its minimal center of attraction (a closed invariant set which attracts its orbit statistically for every point and has no proper subset with this property)? Up to now, the problem remains open. In this paper, we construct two points in the one-sided shift system of two symbols, each of them generates a sub-shift system. One gives a positive answer to the question above, the other answers in the negative. Thus we solve the open problem completely. More important, the two examples show that a proper quasi-weakly almost periodic orbit behaves very differently with weakly almost periodic orbit.     

External rays to periodic points

We prove that for every polynomial-like holomorphic mapP, ifaεK (filled-in Julia set) and the componentK _aofK containinga is either a point ora is accessible along a continuous curve from the complement ofK andK _ais eventually periodic, thena is accessible along an external ray. Ifa is a repelling or parabolic periodic point, then the set of arguments of the external rays converging toa is a nonempty closed “rotation set”, finite (ifK _ais not a one point) or Cantor minimal containing a pair of arguments of external rays of a critical point in ℂ. In the Appendix we discuss constructions via cutting and glueing, fromP to its external map with a “hedgehog”, and backward. Partially supported by the Edmund Landau Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis, sponsored by the Minerva Foundation (Germany). Supported by the Polish KBN Grants 210469101 “Iteracje i Fraktale” and 210909101 “Uklady Dynamiczne”.     

Diffeomorphisms of the plane with stable periodic points

We consider self-diffeomorphisms of the plane with a hyperbolic fixed point and a nontransversal homoclinic point. We show that a neighborhood of the homoclinic point may contain countably many stable periodic sets whose characteristic exponents are bounded away from zero.     

Homotopical theory of periodic points of periodic homeomorphisms on closed surfaces

In this work we show that the Wecken theorem for periodic points holds for periodic homeomorphisms on closed surfaces, which therefore completes the periodic point theory in such a special case. Using it we derive the set of homotopy minimal periods for such homeomorphisms. Moreover we show that the results hold for homotopically periodic self-maps of closed surfaces. This let us to re-formulate our results as a statement on properties of elements of finite order in the group of outer automorphisms of the fundamental group of a surface with non-positive Euler characteristic.     

On the index of approximating sets of periodic points

Summary LetK be a compact space andf:K→K a continuous map without fixed points, i.e. Fixf=⊘. For prime numbersp, the sets Fixf ^p are freeℤ/p-spaces with theℤ/p-action induced byf. Our aim is to estimate the topological indicesi(F _p,f) of invariant subsetsF _p⊂Fixf ^p approximating a givenS⊂K. We construct an example (K,f,S) withS⊂Fixf ^q (q being some prime number) such that, for each neighborhoodU ofS, i (Fix (f|u) ^p, f) increases linearly withp. This article was processed by the author using the L^AT_EX style filecljour1 from Springer-Verlag.     

On the periodic points of functions on a manifold

In a conference on fixed point theory, B. Halpern of Indiana University considered the problem of reducing the number of periodic points of a map by homotopy. He also asked whether the number of periodic points of a function could be increased by a homotopy. In this paper, we will show that for any map on a closed manifold, an arbitrarily small perturbation can always create infinitely many periodic points of arbitrarily high periods.

     

On periodic points under the iteration of additive polynomials

Let F be a field and f(X) F[X]. An element P of F is called a (pre)periodic point of f if the sequence P, f(P), f(f(P)), is (eventually) periodic. In the case where F is a function field of characteristic p>0 and f(X)=aX ^q +bX or f(X)=aX ^{q 2}+bX ^q +cX with q a power of p, we try to give effective upper bounds (depending only on q and F) for the number of (pre)periodic points of f in F. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):primary: 11C08, secondary: 11G09, 37E15     

Unstable points of the spectrum of a periodic difference operator

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 87–88, October–December, 1989.     

Estimates of the periods of periodic points for nonexpansive operators

Suppose thatE is a finite-dimensional Banach space with a polyhedral norm ‖·‖, i.e., a norm such that the unit ball inE is a polyhedron. ℝ ⁿ with the sup norm or ℝ ⁿ with thel ₁-norm are important examples. IfD is a bounded set inE andT:D→D is a map such that ‖T(y)−T(z)‖≤ ‖y−z‖ for ally andz inE, thenT is called nonexpansive with respect to ‖·‖, and it is known that for eachx ∈D there is an integerp=p(x) such that lim _j→∞ T ^jp (x) exists. Furthermore, there exists an integerN, depending only on the dimension ofE and the polyhedral norm onE, such thatp(x)≤N: see [1,12,18,19] and the references to the literature there. In [15], Scheutzow has raised a question about the optimal choice ofN whenE=ℝ ⁿ ,D=K ⁿ , the set of nonnegative vectors in ℝ ⁿ , and the norm is thel ₁-norm. We provide here a reasonably sharp answer to Scheutzow’s question, and in fact we provide a systematic way to generate examples and use this approach to prove that our estimates are optimal forn≤24. See Theorem 2.1, Table 2.1 and the examples in Section 3. As we show in Corollary 2.3, these results also provide information about the caseD=ℝ ⁿ , i.e.,T:ℝ ⁿ →ℝ ⁿ isl ₁-nonexpansive. In addition, it is conjectured in [12] thatN=2 ⁿ whenE=ℝ ⁿ and the norm is the sup norm, and such a result is optimal, if true. Our theorems here show that a sharper result is true for an important subclass of nonexpansive mapsT:(ℝ ⁿ ,‖ · ‖_∞)→(ℝ ⁿ ,‖ · ‖_∞). Partially supported by NSF DMS89-03018.     

On conjugacy of homeomorphisms of the circle possessing periodic points

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for topological conjugacy of homeomorphisms of the circle having periodic points. As an application we get the following theorem on the representation of homeomorphisms. The homeomorphism has a periodic point of period n iff there exist a positive integer q<n relatively prime to n and a homeomorphism such that the lift of Φ⁻¹○F○Φ restricted to [0,1] has the form

     

Turning points for adiabatically perturbed periodic equations

We make a study of uniform asymptotic solutions of some general adiabatic differential equations on the intervals containing a single turning point or a pair of turning points. We reduce this to the study of models which can be explicitly solved. We apply these results to the case of an adiabatically perturbed differential equation with periodic coefficients.