Ergodicity of Rokhlin cocycles

We develop a general study of ergodic properties of extensions of measure preserving dynamical systems. These extensions are given by cocycles (called here Rokhlin cocycles) taking values in the group of automorphisms of a measure space which represents the fibers. We use two different approaches in order to study ergodic properties of such extensions. The first approach is based on properties of mildly mixing group actions and the notion of complementary algebra. The second approach is based on spectral theory of unitary representations of locally compact Abelian groups and the theory of cocycles taking values in such groups. Finally, we examine the structure of self-joinings of extensions. We partially answer a question of Rudolph on lifting mixing (and multiple mixing) property to extensions and answer negatively a question of Robinson on lifting Bernoulli property. We also shed new light on some earlier results of Glasner and Weiss on the class of automorphisms disjoint from all weakly mixing transformations. Answering a question asked by Thouvenot we establish a relative version of the Foiaş—Stratila theorem on Gaussian—Kronecker dynamical systems. Research partially supported by KBN grant 2 P03A 002 14 (1998).     

Symbolic extensions and continuity properties of the entropy

In this short note we give a new presentation of the entropy theory of symbolic extensions. Then we deduce from the main results of this theory some continuity properties of the entropy regarding the smoothness of the dynamical system. We also prove that generic continuous interval maps have nowhere continuous entropy function.     

Measuring complexity in a business cycle model of the Kaldor type

The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamical behavior of a family of two-dimensional nonlinear maps associated to an economic model. Our objective is to measure the complexity of the system using techniques of symbolic dynamics in order to compute the topological entropy. The analysis of the variation of this important topological invariant with the parameters of the system, allows us to distinguish different chaotic scenarios. Finally, we use a another topological invariant to distinguish isentropic dynamics and we exhibit numerical results about maps with the same topological entropy. This work provides an illustration of how our understanding of higher dimensional economic models can be enhanced by the theory of dynamical systems.     

Shift Automorphisms of the Hyperfinite Factor

For a large class of shift transformations of a LEBESGUE measure space (they have to fulfil some mixing condition) we construct automorphisms of the hyperfinite factor of type II₁. The CONNES -STØRMER entropy of the resulting automorphisms equals the measure theoretic entropy of the corresponding shift transformations. Two such automorphisms are conjugate if the conjugacy between the original measure space shifts can be given by a code with finite expected code length.     

Dynamics measured in a non-Archimedean field

We study dynamical systems using measures taking values in a non-Archimedean field. The underlying space for such measure is a zero-dimensional topological space. In this paper we elaborate on the natural translation of several notions, e.g., probability measures, isomorphic transformations, entropy, from classical dynamical systems to a non-Archimedean setting.     

DISTINGUISHED LINE BUNDLES FOR COMPLEX SURFACE AUTOMORPHISMS

We equate dynamical properties (e.g., positive entropy, existence of a periodic curve) of complex projective surface automorphisms with properties of the pull-back actions of such automorphisms on line bundles. We use the properties of the cohomological actions to describe the measures of maximal entropy for automorphisms with positive entropy.     

Sets of “Non-typical” points have full topological entropy and full Hausdorff dimension

For subshifts of finite type, conformal repellers, and conformal horseshoes, we prove that the set of points where the pointwise dimensions, local entropies, Lyapunov exponents, and Birkhoff averages do not exist simultaneously, carries full topological entropy and full Hausdorff dimension. This follows from a much stronger statement formulated for a class of symbolic dynamical systems which includes subshifts with the specification property. Our proofs strongly rely on the multifractal analysis of dynamical systems and constitute a non-trivial mathematical application of this theory.     

Shadowing, entropy and minimal subsystems

We consider non-wandering dynamical systems having the shadowing property, mainly in the presence of sensitivity or transitivity, and investigate how closely such systems resemble the shift dynamical system in the richness of various types of minimal subsystems. In our excavation, we do discover regularly recurrent points, sensitive almost 1-1 extensions of odometers, minimal systems with positive topological entropy, etc. We also show that transitive semi-distal systems with shadowing are in fact minimal equicontinuous systems (hence with zero entropy) and, in contrast to systems with shadowing, the entropy points do not have to be densely distributed in transitive systems.     

Entropy structure

Investigating the emergence of entropy on different scales, we propose an “entropy structure” as a kind of master invariant for the entropy theory of topological dynamical systems. An entropy structure is a sequence of functionsh _k on the simplex of invariant measures which converges to the entropy functionh and which falls into a distinguished equivalence class defined by a natural equivalence relation capturing the “type of nonuniformity in convergence”. An entropy structure recovers several existing invariants, including the symbolic extension entropy h_sex and the Misiurewicz parameter h^*. Entropy theories of Misiurewicz, Katok, Brin—Katok, Newhouse, Romagnoli, Ornstein—Weiss and others all yield candidate sequences (h _k); we determine which of these exhibit the correct type of convergence and hence become entropy structures. One of the satisfactory sequences arises from a new treatment of entropy theory strictly in terms of continuous functions (in place of partitions or covers). The results allow the computation of symbolic extension entropy without reference to zero dimensional extensions. New light is shed on the property of asymptotich-expansiveness. Supported by the KBN grant 2 P03 A 04622.     

Dynamics of automorphisms on compact Kähler manifolds

We study holomorphic automorphisms on compact Kähler manifolds having simple actions on the Hodge cohomology ring. We show for such automorphisms that the main dynamical Green currents admit complex laminar structures (woven currents) and the Green measure is the unique invariant probability measure of maximal entropy.     

Les beaux automorphismes

Assume that the class of partial automorphisms of the monster model of a complete theory has the amalgamation property. The beautiful automorphisms are the automorphisms of models ofT which: 1. are strong, i.e. leave the algebraic closure (inT ^eq) of the empty set pointwise fixed, 2. are obtained by the Fraïsse construction using the amalgamation property that we have just mentioned. We show that all the beautiful automorphisms have the same theory (in the language ofT plus one unary function symbol for the automorphism), and we study this theory. In particular, we examine the question of the saturation of the beautiful automorphisms. We also prove that in some cases (in particular if the theory is -stable andG-trivial), almost all (in the sense of Baire categoricity) automorphisms of the saturated countable model are beautiful and conjugate.     

Amenable unitary representations of locally compact groups

Summary A notion of amenability for an arbitrary unitary group representation is introduced. This unifies and generalizes the notions of amenable homogeneous spaces and of inner-amenable groups. Amenable locally compact groups are characterized by the amenability of all their unitary representations. Amenable representations are characterized by several properties which are operator theoretic analogues of properties characterizing amenable groups. We give a generalization to arbitrary representations of Hulanicki-Reiter theorem. This is used in order to describe the amenable representations of the groups with Kazhdan property (T).     

Density-equicontinuity and Density-sensitivity

In this paper we introduce the notions of (Banach) density-equicontinuity and densitysensitivity. On the equicontinuity side, it is shown that a topological dynamical system is densityequicontinuous if and only if it is Banach density-equicontinuous. On the sensitivity side, we introduce the notion of density-sensitive tuple to characterize the multi-variant version of density-sensitivity. We further look into the relation of sequence entropy tuple and density-sensitive tuple both in measuretheoretical and topological setting, and it turns out that every sequence entropy tuple for some ergodic measure on an invertible dynamical system is density-sensitive for this measure; and every topological sequence entropy tuple in a dynamical system having an ergodic measure with full support is densitysensitive for this measure.     

Autonomy,Controllability, and Extension Modules

The so‐called behavioral approach to systems theory, developed by Willems, provides a unified framework for the mathematical treatment of linear systems. In the behavioral context, a linear system is nothing but the solution space of a linear system of (partial) difference or differential equations. For simplicity, the coefficients are supposed to be constant. Oberst proved a duality theorem that builds upon an earlier result of Palamodov. It says that for certain signal spaces of interest, e.g., the smooth functions or the distributions, the solutions spaces of linear systems of partial differential equations, are dual to certain polynomial modules associated to them. Then the solution space and the module contain the same information, and algebraic properties of the module translate to analytic properties of the solution space. Powerful tools from commutative algebra may be used to derive them. As a prominent example, we study two properties that lie at the very heart of systems and control theory: autonomy and controllability. We summarize the characterizations given by several authors, and unify them in the language of extension modules, an algebraic concept which yields a full classification of these systems theoretic notions.     

On the topological entropy of continuous and almost continuous functions

We prove some results concerning the entropy of continuous and almost continuous functions. We first introduce the notions of bundle entropy and (strong) entropy points and then we study properties of these notions in connection with the theory of multifunctions. Based on these facts we give theorems about approximation of functions defined and assuming their values on compact manifold by functions having strong entropy points.     

The structure of skew products with ergodic group automorphisms

We prove that ergodic automorphisms of compact groups are Bernoulli shifts, and that skew products with such automorphisms are isomorphic to direct products. We give a simple geometric demonstration of Yuzvinskii’s basic result in the calculation of entropy for group automorphisms, and show that the set of possible values for entropy is one of two alternatives, depending on the answer to an open problem in algebraic number theory. We also classify those algebraic factors of a group automorphism that are complemented.     

Smooth interval maps have symbolic extensions

We prove that if X denotes the interval or the circle then every transformation T:X→X of class C ^r , where r>1 is not necessarily an integer, admits a symbolic extension, i.e., every such transformation is a topological factor of a subshift over a finite alphabet. This is done using the theory of entropy structure. For such transformations we control the entropy structure by providing an upper bound, in terms of Lyapunov exponents, of local entropy in the sense of Newhouse of an ergodic measure ν near an invariant measure μ (the antarctic theorem). This bound allows us to estimate the so-called symbolic extension entropy function on invariant measures (the main theorem), and as a consequence, to estimate the topological symbolic extension entropy; i.e., a number such that there exists a symbolic extension with topological entropy arbitrarily close to that number. This last estimate coincides, in dimension 1, with a conjecture stated by Downarowicz and Newhouse [13, Conjecture 1.2]. The passage from the antarctic theorem to the main theorem is applicable to any topological dynamical system, not only to smooth interval or circle maps.     

Impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical systems and impulsive cocycle attractors

In this work, we define the notions of ‘impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical systems’ and ‘impulsive cocycle attractors’. Such notions generalize (we will see that not in the most direct way) the notions of autonomous dynamical systems and impulsive global attractors in the current published literature. We also establish conditions to ensure the existence of an impulsive cocycle attractor for a given impulsive non‐autonomous dynamical system, which are analogous to the continuous case. Moreover, we prove the existence of such attractor for a non‐autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equation with impulses, using energy estimates. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.