On invariant measures for piecewise -transformations of the n-dimensional cube
The bifurcation structure of a one parameter dependent piecewise linear population model is described. An explicit formula is given for the density of the unique invariant absolutely continuous probability measure mub for each parameter value b. The continuity of the map b --> mub is established.
Let (X,d) be a metric space where all closed balls are compact, with a fixed σ-finite Borel measure μ. Assume further that X is endowed with a linear order ⪯. Given a Markov (regular) operator P: L¹(μ) → L¹(μ) we discuss the asymptotic behaviour of the iterates Pⁿ. The paper deals with operators P which are Feller and such that the μ-absolutely continuous parts of the transition probabilities are continuous with respect to x. Under some concentration assumptions on the asymptotic transition probabilities...
We give a necessary and sufficient condition such that, for almost all s ∈ ℝ, ||nθ - s|| < ψ(n) for infinitely many n ∈ ℕ, where θ is fixed and ψ(n) is a positive, non-increasing sequence. This can be seen as a dual result to classical theorems of Khintchine and Szüsz which dealt with the situation where s is fixed and θ is random. Moreover, our result contains several earlier ones as special cases: two old theorems of Kurzweil, a theorem of Tseng and a recent...
We study the continuous and discontinuous planar piecewise differential systems separated by a straight line and formed by an arbitrary linear system and a class of quadratic center. We show that when these piecewise differential systems are continuous, they can have at most one limit cycle. However, when the piecewise differential systems are discontinuous, we show that they can have at most two limit cycles, and that there exist such systems with two limit cycles. Therefore, in particular, we...
We introduce the concept of weakly mixing sets of order n and show that, in contrast to weak mixing of maps, a weakly mixing set of order n does not have to be weakly mixing of order n + 1. Strictly speaking, we construct a minimal invertible dynamical system which contains a non-trivial weakly mixing set of order 2, whereas it does not contain any non-trivial weakly mixing set of order 3. In dimension one this difference is not that much visible, since we prove that every continuous...
We investigate the Lyapunov stability implying asymptotic behavior of a nonlinear ODE system describing stress paths for a particular hypoplastic constitutive model of the Kolymbas type under proportional, arbitrarily large monotonic coaxial deformations. The attractive stress path is found analytically, and the asymptotic convergence to the attractor depending on the direction of proportional strain paths and material parameters of the model is proved rigorously with the help of a Lyapunov function....
We prove that given a compact n-dimensional connected Riemannian manifold X and a continuous function g: X → ℝ, there exists a dense subset of the space of homeomorphisms of X such that for all T in this subset, the integral , considered as a function on the space of all T-invariant Borel probability measures μ, attains its maximum on a measure supported on a periodic orbit.