We investigate the existence and ergodic properties of absolutely continuous invariant measures for a class of piecewise monotone and convex self-maps of the unit interval. Our assumption entails a type of average convexity which strictly generalizes the case of individual branches being convex, as investigated by Lasota and Yorke (1982). Along with existence, we identify tractable conditions for the invariant measure to be unique and such that the system has exponential decay of correlations on...

We consider a family of transformations with a random parameter and study a random dynamical system in which one transformation is randomly selected from the family and applied on each iteration. The parameter space may be of cardinality continuum. Further, the selection of the transformation need not be independent of the position in the state space. We show the existence of absolutely continuous invariant measures for random maps on an interval under some conditions.

We consider a hierarchy of notions of largeness for subsets of ℤ (such as thick sets, syndetic sets, IP-sets, etc., as well as some new classes) and study them in conjunction with recurrence in topological dynamics and ergodic theory. We use topological dynamics and topological algebra in βℤ to establish connections between various notions of largeness and apply those results to the study of the sets $R_{A,B}^{\epsilon }=n\in \mathbb{Z}:\mu \left(A\cap TⁿB\right)>\mu \left(A\right)\mu \left(B\right)-\epsilon$ of times of “fat intersection”. Among other things we show that the sets $R_{A,B}^{\epsilon }$ allow one to distinguish...

On démontre le lemme de Mañé-Conze-Guivarc’h (en classe Lipschitz) pour les systèmes amphidynamiques vérifiant une certaine condition d’hyperbolicité  : la « rectifiabilité ». Diverses applications sont données.

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.

Fibre expanding systems have been introduced by Denker and Gordin. Here we show the existence of a finite partition for such systems which is fibrewise a Markov partition. Such partitions have direct applications to the Abramov-Rokhlin formula for relative entropy and certain polynomial endomorphisms of ℂ².

Soit $(X,𝔛)$ un espace mesurable muni d’une transformation bijective bi-mesurable $\tau$. Soit $\varphi$ une application mesurable de $X$ dans un groupe localement compact à base dénombrable $G$. Nous notons ${\tau }_{\varphi }$ l’extension de $\tau$, induite par $\varphi$, au produit $X\times G$. Nous donnons une description des mesures positives ${\tau }_{\varphi }$-invariantes et ergodiques. Nous obtenons aussi une généralisation du théorème de réduction cohomologique de O.Sarig [5] à un groupe LCD quelconque.

Let T be a geometrically finite rational map, p(T) its petal number and δ the Hausdorff dimension of its Julia set. We give a construction of the σ-finite and T-invariant measure equivalent to the δ-conformal measure. We prove that this measure is finite if and only if $\frac{p\left(T\right)+1}{p\left(T\right)}\delta >2$. Under this assumption and if T is parabolic, we prove that the only equilibrium states are convex combinations of the T-invariant probability and δ-masses at parabolic cycles.

According to the Furstenberg-Zimmer structure theorem, every measure-preserving system has a maximal distal factor, and is weak mixing relative to that factor. Furstenberg and Katznelson used this structural analysis of measure-preserving systems to provide a perspicuous proof of Szemerédi’s theorem. Beleznay and Foreman showed that, in general, the transfinite construction of the maximal distal factor of a separable measure-preserving system can extend arbitrarily far into the countable ordinals....

We introduce the notion of metric entropy for a nonautonomous dynamical system given by a sequence (Xn, μn) of probability spaces and a sequence of measurable maps fn : Xn → Xn+1 with fnμn = μn+1. This notion generalizes the classical concept of metric entropy established by Kolmogorov and Sinai, and is related via a variational inequality to the topological entropy of nonautonomous systems as defined by Kolyada, Misiurewicz, and Snoha. Moreover, it shares several properties with the classical notion...

We prove that mixing on rank-one transformations is equivalent to "the uniform convergence of ergodic averages (as in the mean ergodic theorem) over subsequences of partial sums". In particular, all polynomial staircase transformations are mixing.

In topological dynamics a theory of recurrence properties via (Furstenberg) families was established in the recent years. In the current paper we aim to establish a corresponding theory of ergodicity via families in measurable dynamical systems (MDS). For a family ℱ (of subsets of ℤ₊) and a MDS (X,,μ,T), several notions of ergodicity related to ℱ are introduced, and characterized via the weak topology in the induced Hilbert space L²(μ). T is ℱ-convergence ergodic of order k if for any $A₀,...,A_k$ of positive...

In ergodic theory, certain sequences of averages $A_{k}f$ may not converge almost everywhere for all f ∈ L¹(X), but a sufficiently rapidly growing subsequence $A_{m_k}f$ of these averages will be well behaved for all f. The order of growth of this subsequence that is sufficient is often hyperexponential, but not necessarily so. For example, if the averages are $A_{k}f\left(x\right)=1/\left(2^k\right){\sum }_{j=4^k+1}^{4^k+2^k}f\left(T^{j}x\right)$, then the subsequence $A_{k²}f$ will not be pointwise good even on $L^{\infty }$, but the subsequence $A_{2^k}f$ will be pointwise good on L¹. Understanding when the hyperexponential...

We consider zero entropy $C^{\infty }$-diffeomorphisms on compact connected $C^{\infty }$-manifolds. We introduce the notion of polynomial growth of the derivative for such diffeomorphisms, and study it for diffeomorphisms which additionally preserve a smooth measure. We show that if a manifold M admits an ergodic diffeomorphism with polynomial growth of the derivative then there exists a smooth flow with no fixed point on M. Moreover, if dim M = 2, then necessarily M = ² and the diffeomorphism is $C^{\infty }$-conjugate to a skew...

We compare self-joining and embeddability properties. In particular, we prove that a measure preserving flow ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ with T₁ ergodic is 2-fold quasi-simple (resp. 2-fold distally simple) if and only if T₁ is 2-fold quasi-simple (resp. 2-fold distally simple). We also show that the Furstenberg-Zimmer decomposition for a flow ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ with T₁ ergodic with respect to any flow factor is the same for ${\left(T_t\right)}_{t\in ℝ}$ and for T₁. We give an example of a 2-fold quasi-simple flow disjoint from simple flows and whose time-one map is...