The Lyapunov exponents (LE) provide a simple numerical measure of the sensitive dependence of the dynamical system on initial conditions. The positive LE in dissipative systems is often regarded as an indicator of the occurrence of deterministic chaos. However, the values of LE can also help to assess stability of particular solution branches of dynamical systems. The contribution brings a short review of two methods for estimation of the largest LE from discrete data series. Two methods are analysed...

A long-time dynamic for granular materials arising in the hypoplastic theory of Kolymbas type is investigated. It is assumed that the granular hardness allows exponential degradation, which leads to the densification of material states. The governing system for a rate-independent strain under stress control is described by implicit differential equations. Its analytical solution for arbitrary inhomogeneous coefficients is constructed in closed form. Under cyclic loading by periodic pressure, finite...

On a manifold X of dimension at least two, let μ be a nonatomic measure of full support with μ(∂X) = 0. The Oxtoby-Ulam Theorem says that ergodicity of μ is a residual property in the group of homeomorphisms which preserve μ. Daalderop and Fokkink have recently shown that density of periodic points is residual as well. We provide a proof of their result which replaces the dependence upon the Annulus Theorem by a direct construction which assures topologically robust periodic points.

A class of strictly ergodic Toeplitz flows with positive entropies and trivial topological centralizers is presented.

This article is about almost reducibility of quasi-periodic cocycles with a diophantine frequency which are sufficiently close to a constant. Generalizing previous works by L.H. Eliasson, we show a strong version of almost reducibility for analytic and Gevrey cocycles, that is to say, almost reducibility where the change of variables is in an analytic or Gevrey class which is independent of how close to a constant the initial cocycle is conjugated. This implies a result of density, or quasi-density,...

In the moduli space ${ℳ}_d$ of degree $d$ rational maps, the bifurcation locus is the support of a closed $(1,1)$ positive current $T_{\mathrm{bif}}$ which is called the bifurcation current. This current gives rise to a measure ${\mu }_{\mathrm{bif}}:={\left(T_{\mathrm{bif}}\right)}^{2d-2}$ whose support is the seat of strong bifurcations. Our main result says that $\mathrm{supp}\left({\mu }_{\mathrm{bif}}\right)$ has maximal Hausdorff dimension $2(2d-2)$. As a consequence, the set of degree $d$ rational maps having $(2d-2)$ distinct neutral cycles is dense in a set of full Hausdorff dimension.

We show that the set of those Markov semigroups on the Schatten class ₁ such that in the strong operator topology $li{m}_{t\to \infty }T\left(t\right)=Q$, where Q is a one-dimensional projection, form a meager subset of all Markov semigroups.

Let $T:L^p\left(\Omega \right)\to L^p\left(\Omega \right)$ be a positive contraction, with $1\<p\<\infty$. Assume that $T$ is analytic, that is, there exists a constant $K\ge 0$ such that $\parallel T^n-T^{n-1}\parallel \le K/n$ for any integer $n\ge 1$. Let $2\<q\<\infty$ and let $v^q$ be the space of all complex sequences with a finite strong $q$-variation. We show that for any $x\in L^p\left(\Omega \right)$, the sequence ${\left(\left[T^n\left(x\right)\right]\left(\lambda \right)\right)}_{n\ge 0}$ belongs to $v^q$ for almost every $\lambda \in \Omega$, with an estimate $\parallel {\left(T^n\left(x\right)\right)}_{n\ge 0}{\parallel }_{L^p\left(v^q\right)}\le C{\parallel x\parallel }_p$. If we remove the analyticity assumption, we obtain an estimate $\parallel {\left(M_n\left(T\right)x\right)}_{n\ge 0}{\parallel }_{L^p\left(v^q\right)}\le C{\parallel x\parallel }_p$, where $M_n\left(T\right)={(n+1)}^{-1}{\sum }_{k=0}^n{T}^k$ denotes the ergodic average of $T$. We also obtain similar results for strongly continuous semigroups ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\ge 0}$ of positive...

This paper deals with feedback stabilization of second order equations of the form ytt + A0y + u (t) B0y (t) = 0, t ∈ [0, +∞[, where A0 is a densely defined positive selfadjoint linear operator on a real Hilbert space H, with compact inverse and B0 is a linear map in diagonal form. It is proved here that the classical sufficient ad-condition of Jurdjevic-Quinn and Ball-Slemrod with the feedback control u = ⟨yt, B0y⟩H implies the strong stabilization. This result is derived from a general compactness...

This paper deals with feedback stabilization of second order equations of the form ytt + A0y + u (t) B0y (t) = 0, t ∈ [0, +∞[, where A0 is a densely defined positive selfadjoint linear operator on a real Hilbert space H, with compact inverse and B0 is a linear map in diagonal form. It is proved here that the classical sufficient ad-condition of Jurdjevic-Quinn and Ball-Slemrod with the feedback control u = ⟨yt, B0y⟩H implies the strong stabilization. This result is derived from a general compactness theorem...

We study the relation between transitivity and strong transitivity, introduced by W. Parry, for graph self-maps. We establish that if a graph self-map f is transitive and the set of fixed points of $f^k$ is finite for each k ≥ 1, then f is strongly transitive. As a corollary, if a piecewise monotone graph self-map is transitive, then it is strongly transitive.

We call a sequence $\left(T_n\right)$ of measure preserving transformations strongly mixing if $P(T_n^{-1}A\cap B)$ tends to $P\left(A\right)P\left(B\right)$ for arbitrary measurable $A$, $B$. We investigate whether one can pass to a suitable subsequence $\left(T_{n_k}\right)$ such that $\frac{1}{K}{\sum }_{k=1}^{K}f\left(T_{n_k}\right)⟶\int f\mathrm{d}P$ almost surely for all (or “many”) integrable $f$.