Packing dimensions, transversal mappings and geodesic flows.
Parabolic Cantor sets
The notion of a parabolic Cantor set is introduced allowing in the definition of hyperbolic Cantor sets some fixed points to have derivatives of modulus one. Such difference in the assumptions is reflected in geometric properties of these Cantor sets. It turns out that if the Hausdorff dimension of this set is denoted by h, then its h-dimensional Hausdorff measure vanishes but the h-dimensional packing measure is positive and finite. This latter measure can also be dynamically characterized as the...
Parallelepipeds, nilpotent groups and Gowers norms
In his proof of Szemerédi’s Theorem, Gowers introduced certain norms that are defined on a parallelepiped structure. A natural question is on which sets a parallelepiped structure (and thus a Gowers norm) can be defined. We focus on dimensions and and show when this possible, and describe a correspondence between the parallelepiped structures and nilpotent groups.
Parry expansions of polynomial sequences.
Partition sensitivity for measurable maps
We study countable partitions for measurable maps on measure spaces such that, for every point , the set of points with the same itinerary as that of is negligible. We prove in nonatomic probability spaces that every strong generator (Parry, W., Aperiodic transformations and generators, J. London Math. Soc. 43 (1968), 191–194) satisfies this property (but not conversely). In addition, measurable maps carrying partitions with this property are aperiodic and their corresponding spaces are nonatomic....
Period doubling, entropy, and renormalization
We show that in any family of stunted sawtooth maps, the set of maps whose set of periods is the set of all powers of 2 has no interior point. Similar techniques then allow us to show that, under mild assumptions, smooth multimodal maps whose set of periods is the set of all powers of 2 are infinitely renormalizable with the diameters of all periodic intervals going to zero as the period goes to infinity.
Periodic points and rotation numbers for area preserving diffeomorphisms of the plane
Persistent rotation intervals for old maps
Phenomena in rank-one ℤ²-actions
We present an example of a rank-one partially mixing ℤ²-action which possesses a non-rigid factor and for which the Weak Closure Theorem fails. This is in sharp contrast to one-dimensional actions, which cannot display this type of behavior.
Physical measures for infinite-modal maps
We analyze certain parametrized families of one-dimensional maps with infinitely many critical points from the measure-theoretical point of view. We prove that such families have absolutely continuous invariant probability measures for a positive Lebesgue measure subset of parameters. Moreover, we show that both the density of such a measure and its entropy vary continuously with the parameter. In addition, we obtain exponential rate of mixing for these measures and also show that they satisfy the...
Piecewise-deterministic Markov processes
Poisson driven stochastic differential equations on a separable Banach space are examined. Some sufficient conditions are given for the asymptotic stability of a Markov operator P corresponding to the change of distribution from jump to jump. We also give criteria for the continuous dependence of the invariant measure for P on the intensity of the Poisson process.
Poincaré's recurrence theorem for set-valued dynamical systems
Abstract. The existence theorem of an invariant measure and Poincare's Recurrence Theorem are extended to set-valued dynamical systems with closed graph on a compact metric space.
Pointwise asymptotics for the jumps of ergodic averages.
Pointwise convergence for subsequences of weighted averages
We prove that if μₙ are probability measures on ℤ such that μ̂ₙ converges to 0 uniformly on every compact subset of (0,1), then there exists a subsequence such that the weighted ergodic averages corresponding to satisfy a pointwise ergodic theorem in L¹. We further discuss the relationship between Fourier decay and pointwise ergodic theorems for subsequences, considering in particular the averages along n² + ⌊ρ(n)⌋ for a slowly growing function ρ. Under some monotonicity assumptions, the rate...
Pointwise convergence of nonconventional averages
We answer a question of H. Furstenberg on the pointwise convergence of the averages , where U and R are positive operators. We also study the pointwise convergence of the averages when T and S are measure preserving transformations.
Pointwise ergodic theorems with rate and application to the CLT for Markov chains
Let T be Dunford–Schwartz operator on a probability space (Ω, μ). For f∈Lp(μ), p>1, we obtain growth conditions on ‖∑k=1nTkf‖p which imply that (1/n1/p)∑k=1nTkf→0 μ-a.e. In the particular case that p=2 and T is the isometry induced by a probability preserving transformation we get better results than in the general case; these are used to obtain a quenched central limit theorem for additive functionals of stationary ergodic Markov chains, which improves those of Derriennic–Lin and Wu–Woodroofe....
Pointwise limits for sequences of orbital integrals
In 1967, Ross and Stromberg published a theorem about pointwise limits of orbital integrals for the left action of a locally compact group G on (G,ρ), where ρ is the right Haar measure. We study the same kind of problem, but more generally for left actions of G on any measure space (X,μ), which leave the σ-finite measure μ relatively invariant, in the sense that sμ = Δ(s)μ for every s ∈ G, where Δ is the modular function of G. As a consequence, we also obtain a generalization of a theorem of Civin...
Pointwise theorems for amenable groups.
Poisson suspensions of compactly regenerative transformations
For infinite measure preserving transformations with a compact regeneration property we establish a central limit theorem for visits to good sets of finite measure by points from Poissonian ensembles. This extends classical results about (noninteracting) infinite particle systems driven by Markov chains to the realm of systems driven by weakly dependent processes generated by certain measure preserving transformations.
Poisson thinning by monotone factors.