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Dynamics of symplectic piecewise affine elliptic rotation maps on tori

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2002

BYUNGIK KAHNG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (e-mail: [email protected])

Abstract

We investigate the iterative dynamics of symplectic piecewise-affine elliptic rotation maps associated with matrices with non-integer entries, \big(\begin{smallmatrix} 0 & -1 \\ 1 & a \end{smallmatrix}\big), where -2 < a < 2. We explain how their singularity and periodicity structures develop in general. In a special case, a = \pm \sqrt 2, we completely determine the orbit structure, the singularity structure, the invariant fractal and the ergodicity on the invariant fractal with respect to its Hausdorff measure. We also report an example of a period tripling cascade that arises from this system.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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