In this paper we dramatically expand the domain of known stably ergodic, partially hyperbolic dynamical systems. For example, all partially hyperbolic affine diffeomorphisms of compact homogeneous spaces which have the accessibility property are stably ergodic. Our main tools are the new concepts – julienne density point and julienne quasi-conformality of the stable and unstable holonomy maps. Julienne quasi-conformal holonomy maps preserve all julienne density points.

We consider typical analytic unimodal maps which possess a chaotic attractor. Our main result is an explicit combinatorial formula for the exponents of periodic orbits. Since the exponents of periodic orbits form a complete set of smooth invariants, the smooth structure is completely determined by purely topological data (“typical rigidity”), which is quite unexpected in this setting. It implies in particular that the lamination structure of spaces of analytic unimodal maps (obtained by the partition...

The classical Banach principle is an essential tool for the investigation of ergodic properties of Cesàro subsequences. The aim of this work is to extend the Banach principle to the case of stochastic convergence in operator algebras. We start by establishing a sufficient condition for stochastic convergence (stochastic Banach principle). Then we prove stochastic convergence for bounded Besicovitch sequences, and as a consequence for uniform subsequences.

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.

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...

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 $f$.