In this paper we study dynamical properties of linear actions by free groups via the induced action on projective space. This point of view allows us to introduce techniques from Thermodynamic Formalism. In particular, we obtain estimates on the growth of orbits and their limiting distribution on projective space.

The main focus of combinatorial dynamics is put on the structure of periodic points (and the corresponding orbits) of topological dynamical systems. The first result in this area is the famous Sharkovsky's theorem which completely describes the coexistence of periods of periodic points for a continuous map from the closed unit interval to itself. One feature of this theorem is that it can be proved using digraphs of a special type (the so-called periodic graphs). In this paper we use Markov graphs...

Linear fractional recurrences are given as $z_{n+k}=A\left(z\right)/B\left(z\right)$, where $A\left(z\right)$ and $B\left(z\right)$ are linear functions of $z_n,z_{n+1},\cdots ,z_{n+k-1}$. In this article we consider two questions about these recurrences: (1) Find $A\left(z\right)$ and $B\left(z\right)$ such that the recurrence is periodic; and (2) Find (invariant) integrals in case the induced birational map has quadratic degree growth. We approach these questions by considering the induced birational map and determining its dynamical degree. The first theorem shows that for each $k$ there are $k$-step linear fractional recurrences...

We consider measure-preserving diffeomorphisms of the torus with zero entropy. We prove that every ergodic $C^1$-diffeomorphism with linear growth of the derivative is algebraically conjugate to a skew product of an irrational rotation on the circle and a circle $C^1$-cocycle. We also show that for no positive β ≠ 1 does there exist an ergodic $C^2$-diffeomorphism whose derivative has polynomial growth with degree β.

The orbit space of a linear Hamiltonian circle action and the reduced orbit space, at zero, are examples of singular Poisson spaces. The orbit space inherits the Poisson algebra of functions invariant under the linear circle action and the reduced orbit space inherits the Poisson algebra obtained by restricting the invariant functions to the reduced space. Both spaces reside inside smooth manifolds, which in turn inherit almost Poisson structures from the Poisson varieties. In this paper we consider...

We discuss some implications of linear programming for Mather theory [13, 14, 15] and its finite dimensional approximations. We find that the complementary slackness condition of duality theory formally implies that the Mather set lies in an $n$-dimensional graph and as well predicts the relevant nonlinear PDE for the “weak KAM” theory of Fathi [6, 7, 8, 5].

We discuss some implications of linear programming for Mather theory [13-15] and its finite dimensional approximations. We find that the complementary slackness condition of duality theory formally implies that the Mather set lies in an n-dimensional graph and as well predicts the relevant nonlinear PDE for the “weak KAM” theory of Fathi [5-8].

We consider $C^2$ families $t\mapsto f_t$ of $C^4$ unimodal maps $f_t$ whose critical point is slowly recurrent, and we show that the unique absolutely continuous invariant measure ${\mu }_t$ of $f_t$ depends differentiably on $t$, as a distribution of order $1$. The proof uses transfer operators on towers whose level boundaries are mollified via smooth cutoff functions, in order to avoid artificial discontinuities. We give a new representation of ${\mu }_t$ for a Benedicks-Carleson map $f_t$, in terms of a single smooth function and the inverse branches...

We prove that the linearization of a germ of holomorphic map of the type $F_{\lambda }\left(z\right)=\lambda (z+O\left(z^2\right))$ has a ${𝒞}^1$-holomorphic dependence on the multiplier $\lambda$. ${𝒞}^1$-holomorphic functions are ${𝒞}^1$-Whitney smooth functions, defined on compact subsets and which belong to the kernel of the $\overline{\partial }$ operator. The linearization is analytic for $\left|\lambda \right|\ne 1$ and the unit circle ${𝕊}^1$ appears as a natural boundary (because of resonances,i.e.roots of unity). However the linearization is still defined at most points of ${𝕊}^1$, namely those points which lie “far enough from...

We prove that the linearization functor from the category of Hamiltonian $K$-actions with group-valued moment maps in the sense of Lu, to the category of ordinary Hamiltonian $K$- actions, preserves products up to symplectic isomorphism. As an application, we give a new proof of the Thompson conjecture on singular values of matrix products and extend this result to the case of real matrices. We give a formula for the Liouville volume of these spaces and obtain from it a hyperbolic version of the Duflo...