The bitransitive continuous maps of the interval are conjugate to maps extremely chaotic a. e.
The classification of tiling space flows.
The Geometry of Model Spaces for Probability-Preserving Actions of Sofic Groups
Bowen’s notion of sofic entropy is a powerful invariant for classifying probability-preserving actions of sofic groups. It can be defined in terms of the covering numbers of certain metric spaces associated to such an action, the ‘model spaces’. The metric geometry of these model spaces can exhibit various interesting features, some of which provide other invariants of the action. This paper explores an approximate connectedness property of the model spaces, and uses it give a new proof that certain...
The rate of convergence for iterated function systems
Iterated function systems with place-dependent probabilities are considered. It is shown that the rate of convergence of transition probabilities to a unique invariant measure is geometric.
The return sequence of the Bowen-Series map for punctured surfaces
For a non-compact hyperbolic surface M of finite area, we study a certain Poincaré section for the geodesic flow. The canonical, non-invertible factor of the first return map to this section is shown to be pointwise dual ergodic with return sequence (aₙ) given by aₙ = π/(4(Area(M) + 2π)) · n/(log n). We use this result to deduce that the section map itself is rationally ergodic, and that the geodesic flow associated to M is ergodic with respect to the Liouville measure. ...
Théorèmes limites pour une classe de chaînes de Markov et applications aux difféomorphismes d'Anosov
Three results on mixing shapes.
Tower multiplexing and slow weak mixing
A technique is presented for multiplexing two ergodic measure preserving transformations together to derive a third limiting transformation. This technique is used to settle a question regarding rigidity sequences of weak mixing transformations. Namely, given any rigidity sequence for an ergodic measure preserving transformation, there exists a weak mixing transformation which is rigid along the same sequence. This establishes a wide range of rigidity sequences for weakly mixing dynamical systems....
Twist systems on the interval
Let I be a compact real interval and let f:I → I be continuous. We describe an interval analogy of the irrational circle rotation that occurs as a subsystem of the dynamical system (I,f)-we call it an irrational twist system. Using a coding we show that any irrational twist system is strictly ergodic. We also prove that irrational twist systems exist as subsystems of a large class of systems (I,f) having a cycle of odd period greater than one.