Smooth partitions of Anosov diffeomorphisms are weak Bernoulli

It is shown that smooth partitions are weak Bernoulli forC ² measure preserving Anosov diffeomorphisms. A related type of coding is defined and an invariant discussed. Supported by the Sloan Foundation and NSF GP-14519.     

Nonergodicity of Euler fluid dynamics on tori versus positivity of the Arnold-Ricci tensor

Brownian motions above the group G of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus Td, d?2, are constructed. The asymptotic behaviour for large time of those processes shows the nonexistence of a probability measure invariant under the deterministic incompressible fluid dynamics. The energy induces on the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of T² a Riemannian structure which has a positive renormalized Ricci tensor.     

Dynamics on Ahlfors quasi-circles

The celebrated theory of Denjoy introduced a topological invariant distinguishingC ¹ andC ² diffeomorphisms of the circle. AC ² diffeomorphism of the circle cannot have an infinite minimal set other than the circle itself. However, this is possible forC ¹ diffeomorphisms. In dimension two there is a related invariant distinguishingC ² andC ³ diffeomorphisms. Partially supported by NSF grant No. MCS-83202062.     

A simplicial formula and bound for the Euler class

LetG be the discrete group of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle. An explicit simplicial formula on the level of the bar construction is given for the Euler Class of a circle bundle with structure groupG. An upper bound for the Euler Class is obtained which, when the base space of the bundle is a closed orientable surface, reduces to that of J. Wood. An invariant of circle bundles, complexity, is defined which “detects” the upper bound. Partially supported by a grant from the N.S.F.     

Asymptotically Efficient Estimation of the Derivative of the Invariant Density

The problem of estimation of the derivative of the invariant density is considered for a one-dimensional ergodic diffusion process. The lower minimax bound on the L ²-type risk of all estimators is proposed and an asymptotically efficient (up to the constant) in the sense of this bound kernel-type estimator is constructed.     

Abelian extensions via prequantization

We generalize the prequantization central extension of a group of diffeomorphisms preserving a closed 2-form ω, to an abelian extension of a group of diffeomorphisms preserving a closed vector valued 2-form ω up to a linear isomorphism (ω-equivariant diffeomorphisms). Every abelian extension of a simply connected Lie group can be obtained as the pull-back of such a prequantization abelian extension.     

Stably ergodic diffeomorphisms which are not partially hyperbolic

We show stable ergodicity of a class of conservative diffeomorphisms ofT ⁿ which do not have any hyperbolic invariant subbundle. Moreover, the uniqueness of SRB (Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen) measure for non-conservativeC ¹ perturbations of such diffeomorphisms is verified. This class strictly contains non-partially hyperbolic robustly transitive diffeomorphisms constructed by Bonatti-Viana [4] and so we answer the question posed there on the stable ergodicity of such systems.     

SRB measures for partially hyperbolic systems whose central direction is mostly contracting

We consider partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms preserving a splitting of the tangent bundle into a strong-unstable subbundleE ^uu (uniformly expanding) and a subbundleE ^c, dominated byE ^uu. We prove that if the central directionE ^c is mostly contracting for the diffeomorphism (negative Lyapunov exponents), then the ergodic Gibbsu-states are the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures, there are finitely many of them, and their basins cover a full measure subset. If the strong-unstable leaves are dense, there is a unique Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measure. We describe some applications of these results, and we also introduce a construction of robustly transitive diffeomorphisms in dimension larger than three, having no uniformly hyperbolic (neither contracting nor expanding) invariant subbundles. Work partially supported by CNRS and CNPq/PRONEX-Dynamical Systems, and carried out at Laboratoire de Topologie, Dijon, and IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.     

The conjugating map for commutative groups of circle diffeomorphisms

For a single aperiodic, orientation preserving diffeomorphism on the circle, all known local results on the differentiability of the conjugating map are also known to be global results. We show that this does not hold for commutative groups of diffeomorphisms. Given a set of rotation numbers, we construct commuting diffeomorphisms inC ^2-ε for all ε>0 with these rotation numbers that are not conjugate to rotations. On the other hand, we prove that for a commutative subgroupF ⊂C ^1+β, 0<β<1, containing diffeomorphisms that are perturbations of rotations, a conjugating maph exists as long as the rotation numbers of this subset jointly satisfy a Diophantine condition.     

Roper–Suffridge extension operator and the lower bound for the distortion

Liczberski–Starkov gave a sharp lower bound for DΦ_n(f)(z) near the origin, where Φ_n is the Roper–Suffridge extension operator and f is a normalized convex mapping on the unit disk in C. They gave a conjecture that the sharp lower bound holds on the Euclidean unit ball Bⁿ in Cⁿ. In this paper, we will give a sharp lower bound on Bⁿ for a more general extension operator and for normalized univalent mappings f or normalized convex mappings f. We will give a lower bound for mappings f in a linear invariant family. We will also give a similar sharp lower bound on bounded convex complete Reinhardt domains in Cⁿ.     

Invariant circles for homogeneous polynomial vector fields on the 2-dimensional sphere

LexX be a homogeneous polynomial vector field of degreen≥3 on S² having finitely many invariant circles. Then, for such a vector fieldX we find upper bounds for the number of invariant circles, invariant great circles, invariant circles intersecting at a same point and parallel circles with the same director vector. We give examples of homogeneous polynomial vector fields of degree 3 on S² having finitely many invariant circles which are not great circles, which are limit cycles, but are not great circles and invariant great circles that are limit cycles. Moreover, for the casen=3 we determine the maximum number of parallel invariant circles with the same director vector. The authors are partially supported by a MCYT grant BFM2002-04236-C02-02 and by a CIRIT grant number 2001SGR 00173.     

On the Uniqueness of Hofer��s Geometry

We study the class of pseudo-norms on the space of smooth functions on a closed symplectic manifold, which are invariant under the action of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. Our main result shows that any such pseudo-norm that is continuous with respect to the C ^∞-topology, is dominated from above by the L _∞-norm. As a corollary, we obtain that any bi-invariant Finsler pseudo-metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms that is generated by an invariant pseudonorm that satisfies the aforementioned continuity assumption, is either identically zero or equivalent to Hofer’s metric.     

On Lower Dimensional Invariant Tori in C^d Reversible Systems

In this paper, a result on the persistence of lower dimensional invariant tori in Cd reversible systems is obtained under some conditions. The theorem is proved for any d which is larger than some constants.     

Center manifolds for nonuniformly partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms

We establish the existence of smooth invariant center manifolds for the nonuniformly partially hyperbolic trajectories of a diffeomorphism in a Banach space. This means that the differentials of the diffeomorphism along the trajectory admit a nonuniform exponential trichotomy. We also consider the more general case of sequences of diffeomorphisms, which corresponds to a nonautonomous dynamics with discrete time. In addition, we obtain an optimal regularity for the center manifolds: if the diffeomorphisms are of class C^k then the manifolds are also of class C^k. As a byproduct of our approach we obtain an exponential control not only for the trajectories on the center manifolds, but also for their derivatives up to order k.     

Several results on the families of diffeomorphisms onS 1

In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the one-parameter families of diffeomorphisms onS ¹ to be stable and a necessary condition for the multi-parameter families to be stable; and, moreover, we prove that phase-locking is a generic property of the one-parameter families of diffeomorphisms onS ¹. We also get a necessary and sufficient condition of phase-locking for the one-parameter families of integral diffeomorphisms onS ¹ which strengthens a result in [2].     

The Calabi invariant and the Euler class

We show the following relationship between the Euler class for the group of the orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle and the Calabi invariant for the group of area preserving diffeomorphisms of the disk which are the identity along the boundary. A diffeomorphism of the circle admits an extension which is an area preserving diffeomorphism of the disk. For a homomorphism from the fundamental group of a closed surface to the group of the diffeomorphisms of the circle, by taking the extensions for the generators , one obtains the product of their commutators, and this is an area preserving diffeomorphism of the disk which is the identity along the boundary. Then the Calabi invariant of this area preserving diffeomorphism is a non-zero multiple of the Euler class of the associated circle bundle evaluated on the fundamental cycle of the surface.

     

Best Sobolev Constants and Manifolds with Positive Scalar Curvature Metrics

We study the Yamabe invariant of manifolds which admit metrics of positive scalar curvature. Analysing `best Sobolev constants'we give a technique to find positive lower bounds for the invariant.We apply these ideas to show that for any compact Riemannian manifold (N ⁿ ,g) of positive scalarcurvature there is a positive constant K =K(N, g), which depends only on (N, g), such that for any compact manifold M ^m , the Yamabe invariantof M ^m × N ⁿ is no less than K times the invariant ofS ^{n + m} . We will find some estimates for the constant K in the case N =S ⁿ .     

Lengths of Contact Isotopies and Extensions of the Hofer Metric

Using the Hofer metric, we construct, under a certain condition, a bi-invariant distance on the identity component in the group of strictly contact diffeomorphisms of a compact regular contact manifold. We also show that the Hofer metric on Ham(M) has a right-invariant (but not left invariant) extension to the identity component in the groups of symplectic diffeomorphisms of certain symplectic manifolds.Mathematics Subject classification (2000): 53C12, 53C15.     

Conservation and bifurcation of an invariant torus of a vector field

We consider small perturbations with respect to a small parameter ε≥0 of a smooth vector field in ℝ^n+m possessing an invariant torusT ^m. The flow on the torusT ^m is assumed to be quasiperiodic withm basic frequencies satisfying certain conditions of Diophantine type; the matrix Ω of the variational equation with respect to the invariant torus is assumed to be constant. We investigate the existence problem for invariant tori of different dimensions for the case in which Ω is a nonsingular matrix that can have purely imaginary eigenvalues. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 34–44, January, 1997. Translated by S. K. Lando     

Group Invariant Scattering

This paper constructs translation‐invariant operators on $\font\open=msbm10 at 10pt\def\R{\hbox{\open R}}{\bf L}^2({{{\R}}}^d)$ , which are Lipschitz‐continuous to the action of diffeomorphisms. A scattering propagator is a path‐ordered product of nonlinear and noncommuting operators, each of which computes the modulus of a wavelet transform. A local integration defines a windowed scattering transform, which is proved to be Lipschitz‐continuous to the action of C ² diffeomorphisms. As the window size increases, it converges to a wavelet scattering transform that is translation invariant. Scattering coefficients also provide representations of stationary processes. Expected values depend upon high‐order moments and can discriminate processes having the same power spectrum. Scattering operators are extended on L ²(G), where G is a compact Lie group, and are invariant under the action of G. Combining a scattering on $\font\open=msbm10 at 10pt\def\R{\hbox{\open R}}{\bf L}^2({{{\R}}}^d)$ and on L ²(SO(d)) defines a translation‐ and rotation‐invariant scattering on $\font\open=msbm10 at 10pt\def\R{\hbox{\open R}}{\bf L}^2({{{\R}}}^d)$ . © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.