We give a new proof of the following conjecture of Yoccoz:$$(\exists C\in ℝ)(\forall \theta \in ℝ\setminus \mathbb{Q})log\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)\le -Y\left(\theta \right)+C,$$where $Q_{\theta }\left(z\right)={\mathrm{e}}^{2\pi i\theta }z+z^2$, $\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is its Siegel disk if $Q_{\theta }$ is linearizable (or $\varnothing$ otherwise), $\mathrm{rad}\Delta \left(Q_{\theta }\right)$ is the conformal radius of the Siegel disk of $Q_{\theta }$ (or $0$ if there is none) and $Y\left(\theta \right)$ is Yoccoz’s Brjuno function.In a former article we obtained a first proof based on the control of parabolic explosion. Here, we present a more elementary proof based on Yoccoz’s initial methods.We then extend this result to some new families of polynomials such as $z^d+c$ with $d\>2$. We also show that...

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the solvability of a generalized cohomology equation, for an ergodic endomorphism of a probability measure space, in the space of measurable complex functions. This generalizes a result obtained in [7].

We study a model of motion of a passive tracer particle in a turbulent flow that is strongly mixing in time variable. In [8] we have shown that there exists a probability measure equivalent to the underlying physical probability under which the quasi-Lagrangian velocity process, i.e. the velocity of the flow observed from the vintage point of the moving particle, is stationary and ergodic. As a consequence, we proved the existence of the mean of the quasi-Lagrangian velocity, the so-called Stokes...

On a compact metric space X one defines a transition system to be a lower semicontinuous map $X\to 2^X$. It is known that every Markov operator on C(X) induces a transition system on X and that commuting of Markov operators implies commuting of the induced transition systems. We show that even in finite spaces a pair of commuting transition systems may not be induced by commuting Markov operators. The existence of trajectories for a pair of transition systems or Markov operators is also investigated.

For a class of quasiperiodically forced time-discrete dynamical systems of two variables (θ,x) ∈ $T^1\times {ℝ}_{+}$ with nonpositive Lyapunov exponents we prove the existence of an attractor Γ̅ with the following properties:  1. Γ̅ is the closure of the graph of a function x = ϕ(θ). It attracts Lebesgue-a.e. starting point in $T^1\times {ℝ}_{+}$. The set θ:ϕ(θ) ≠ 0 is meager but has full 1-dimensional Lebesgue measure.  2. The omega-limit of Lebesgue-a.e point in $T^1\times {ℝ}_{+}$ is $\Gamma ̅$, but for a residual set of points in $T^1\times {ℝ}_{+}$ the omega limit is the...

We give a sufficient condition for the construction of Markov fibred systems using countable Markov partitions with locally bounded distortion.

We investigate the properties of the entropy and conditional entropy of measurable partitions of unity in the space of essentially bounded functions defined on a Lebesgue probability space.

We introduce a property of ergodic flows, called Property B. We prove that an ergodic hyperfinite equivalence relation of type III₀ whose associated flow has this property is not of product type. A consequence is that a properly ergodic flow with Property B is not approximately transitive. We use Property B to construct a non-AT flow which-up to conjugacy-is built under a function with the dyadic odometer as base automorphism.

The main result of this paper is a quantified version of Ingham's Tauberian theorem for bounded vector-valued sequences rather than functions. It gives an estimate on the rate of decay of such a sequence in terms of the behaviour of a certain boundary function, with the quality of the estimate depending on the degree of smoothness this boundary function is assumed to possess. The result is then used to give a new proof of the quantified Katznelson-Tzafriri theorem recently obtained by the author...

We prove a ratio ergodic theorem for non-singular free ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ and ${ℝ}^d$ actions, along balls in an arbitrary norm. Using a Chacon–Ornstein type lemma the proof is reduced to a statement about the amount of mass of a probability measure that can concentrate on (thickened) boundaries of balls in ${ℝ}^d$. The proof relies on geometric properties of norms, including the Besicovitch covering lemma and the fact that boundaries of balls have lower dimension than the ambient space. We also show that for general group...

We study if the combinatorial entropy of a finite cover can be computed using finite partitions finer than the cover. This relates to an unsolved question in [R] for open covers. We explicitly compute the topological entropy of a fixed clopen cover showing that it is smaller than the infimum of the topological entropy of all finer clopen partitions.