We show that any subset $A\subset \mathbb{N}$ with positive upper Banach density contains the pattern $\{m,m+[n{\it\alpha}],\dots ,m+k[n{\it\alpha}]\}$, for some $m\in \mathbb{N}$ and $n=p-1$ for some prime $p$, where ${\it\alpha}\in \mathbb{R}\setminus \mathbb{Q}$. Making use of the Furstenberg correspondence principle, we do this by proving an associated recurrence result in ergodic theory along the shifted primes. We also prove the convergence result for the associated averages along primes and indicate other applications of these methods.

Answering an open question affirmatively it is shown that every ergodic invariant measure of a mean equicontinuous (i.e. mean-L-stable) system has discrete spectrum. Dichotomy results related to mean equicontinuity and mean sensitivity are obtained when a dynamical system is transitive or minimal. Localizing the notion of mean equicontinuity, notions of almost mean equicontinuity and almost Banach mean equicontinuity are introduced. It turns out that a system with the former property may have positive entropy and meanwhile a system with the latter property must have zero entropy.

We study the digits of $\beta $-expansions in the case where $\beta $ is a Salem number. We introduce new upper bounds for the numbers of occurrences of consecutive 0s in the expansion of 1. We also give lower bounds for the numbers of non-zero digits in the $\beta $-expansions of algebraic numbers. As applications, we give criteria for transcendence of the values of power series at certain algebraic points.

We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a Poisson suspension to be prime. The proof is based on the Fock space structure of the $L^{2}$-space of the Poisson suspension. We give examples of explicit infinite measure-preserving systems, in particular of non-singular compact group rotations that give rise to prime Poisson suspensions. We also compare some properties of so far known prime transformations with those of our examples, showing that these examples are new.

Any Jordan curve in the complex plane can be approximated arbitrarily well in the Hausdorff topology by Julia sets of polynomials. Finite collections of disjoint Jordan domains can be approximated by the basins of attraction of rational maps.

We prove a sharp large deviation principle concerning intervals shrinking with sub-exponential speed for certain models involving the Poincaré map related to a Markov family for an Axiom A flow restricted to a basic set $\Lambda $ satisfying some additional regularity assumptions.

We show that any non-zero orbit under a non-compact, simple, irreducible linear group is dense in the Bohr compactification of the ambient space.

We consider a construction of ${C}^{\ast } $-algebras from continuous piecewise monotone maps on the circle which generalizes the crossed product construction for homeomorphisms and more generally the construction of Renault, Deaconu and Anantharaman-Delaroche for local homeomorphisms. Assuming that the map is surjective and not locally injective we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the simplicity of the ${C}^{\ast } $-algebra and show that it is then a Kirchberg algebra. We provide tools for the calculation of the $K$-theory groups and turn them into an algorithmic method for Markov maps.

We generalize several results of the classical theory of thermodynamic formalism by considering a compact metric space $M$ as the state space. We analyze the shift acting on $M^{\mathbb{N}}$ and consider a general a priori probability for defining the transfer (Ruelle) operator. We study potentials $A$ which can depend on the infinite set of coordinates in $M^{\mathbb{N}}$. We define entropy and by its very nature it is always a non-positive number. The concepts of entropy and transfer operator are linked. If $M$ is not a finite set there exist Gibbs states with arbitrary negative value of entropy. Invariant probabilities with support in a fixed point will have entropy equal to minus infinity. In the case $M=S^{1}$, and the a priori measure is Lebesgue $dx$, the infinite product of $dx$ on $(S^{1})^{\mathbb{N}}$ will have zero entropy. We analyze the Pressure problem for a Hölder potential $A$ and its relation with eigenfunctions and eigenprobabilities of the Ruelle operator. Among other things we analyze the case where temperature goes to zero and we show some selection results. Our general setting can be adapted in order to analyze the thermodynamic formalism for the Bernoulli space with countable infinite symbols. Moreover, the so-called $XY$ model also fits under our setting. In this last case $M$ is the unitary circle $S^{1}$. We explore the differentiable structure of $(S^{1})^{\mathbb{N}}$ by considering a certain class of smooth potentials and we show some properties of the corresponding main eigenfunctions.

In this paper we provide a complete modulus of analytic classification for germs of generic analytic families of diffeomorphisms which unfold a parabolic fixed point of codimension $k$. We start by showing that a generic family can be ‘prepared’, i.e. brought to a prenormal form ${f}_{\epsilon } (z)$ in which the multi-parameter $\epsilon $ is almost canonical (up to an action of $ \mathbb{Z} / k \mathbb{Z} $). As in the codimension one case treated in P. Mardešić, R. Roussarie and C. Rousseau [Modulus of analytic classification for unfoldings of generic parabolic diffeomorphisms. Mosc. Math. J. 4 (2004), 455–498], we show that the Ecalle–Voronin modulus can be unfolded to give a complete modulus for such germs. For this purpose, we define unfolded sectors in $z$-space that constitute natural domains on which the map ${f}_{\epsilon } $ can be brought to normal form in an almost unique way. The comparison of these normalizing changes of coordinates on the different sectors forms the analytic part of the modulus. This construction is performed on sectors in the multi-parameter space $\epsilon $ such that the closure of their union provides a neighborhood of the origin in parameter space.

An algebraic flip system is an action of the infinite dihedral group by automorphisms of a compact abelian group $X$. In this paper, a fundamental structure theorem is established for irreducible algebraic flip systems, that is, systems for which the only closed invariant subgroups of $X$ are finite. Using irreducible systems as a foundation, for expansive algebraic flip systems, periodic point counting estimates are obtained that lead to the orbit growth estimate

$$\begin{eqnarray}Ae^{hN}\leqslant {\it\pi}(N)\leqslant Be^{hN},\end{eqnarray}$$

${\it\pi}(N)$

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We consider special flows over the rotation by an irrational $\alpha $ under the roof functions of bounded variation without continuous, singular part in the Lebesgue decomposition and sum of jumps not equal to zero. We show that all such flows are weakly mixing. Under the additional assumption that $\alpha $ has bounded partial quotients, we study the weak Ratner property. We establish this property whenever an additional condition (stable under sufficiently small perturbations) on the set of jumps is satisfied. While it is a classical result that the flows under consideration are not mixing, one more condition on the set of jumps turns out to be sufficient to obtain the absence of partial rigidity, hence mild mixing of such flows.

Given an affine variety $X$, a morphism ${\it\phi}:X\rightarrow X$, a point ${\it\alpha}\in X$, and a Zariski-closed subset $V$ of $X$, we show that the forward ${\it\phi}$-orbit of ${\it\alpha}$ meets $V$ in at most finitely many infinite arithmetic progressions, and the remaining points lie in a set of Banach density zero. This may be viewed as a weak asymptotic version of the dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture for affine varieties. The results hold in arbitrary characteristic, and the proof uses methods of ergodic theory applied to compact Berkovich spaces.

We study the Peierls barrier $P_{\omega }(\xi )$ for a broad class of monotone variational problems. These problems arise naturally in solid state physics and from Hamiltonian twist maps. We start by deriving an estimate for the difference $\vert P_{\omega }(\xi ) - P_{q/p}(\xi ) \vert $ of the Peierls barriers of rotation numbers $\omega \in {{\mathbb{R}}}$ and $q/p\in {\mathbb{Q}}$. A similar estimate was obtained by Mather [Modulus of continuity for Peierls’s barrier. Proc. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Periodic Solutions of Hamiltonian Systems and Related Topics (Il Ciocco, Italy, 13–18 October 1986) (NATO Adv. Sci. Inst. Ser. C Math. Phys. Sci., 209). Eds. P. H. Rabinowitz, A. Ambrosetti and I. Eckeland. D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1987, pp. 177–202] in the context of twist maps, but our proof is different and applies more generally. It follows from the estimate that $\omega \mapsto P_{\omega }(\xi )$ is continuous at irrational points. Moreover, we show that the Peierls barrier depends continuously on parameters and hence that the property that a monotone variational problem admits a lamination of minimizers of rotation number $\omega \in {{\mathbb{R}}}\delimiter "026E30F {\mathbb{Q}}$ is open in the $C^1$-topology.

In a previous paper the author proved a distributional convergence for the Birkhoff sums of functions of null average defined over a dynamical system with an infinite, invariant, ergodic measure, akin to a central limit theorem. Here we extend this result to larger classes of observables, with milder smoothness conditions, and to larger classes of dynamical systems, which may no longer be mixing. A special emphasis is given to continuous time systems: semi-flows, flows, and $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$-extensions of flows. The latter generalization is applied to the geodesic flow on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$-periodic manifolds of negative sectional curvature.

In this work, we introduce a new technique for operator renewal sequences associated with dynamical systems preserving an infinite measure that improves the results on mixing rates obtained by Melbourne and Terhesiu [Operator renewal theory and mixing rates for dynamical systems with infinite measure. Invent. Math. 1 (2012), 61–110]. Also, this technique allows us to offer a very simple proof of the key result of Melbourne and Terhesiu that provides first-order asymptotics of operator renewal sequences associated with dynamical systems with infinite measure. Moreover, combining techniques used in this work with techniques used by Melbourne and Terhesiu, we obtain first-order asymptotics of operator renewal sequences under some relaxed assumption on the first return map.

We give a classification of superattracting germs in dimension $1$ over a complete normed algebraically closed field $\mathbb{K}$ of positive characteristic up to conjugacy. In particular, we show that formal and analytic classifications coincide for these germs. We also give a higher-dimensional version of some of these results.

On a three-dimensional contact manifold with boundary, a bypass attachment is an elementary change of the contact structure consisting in the attachment of a thickened half-disc with a prescribed contact structure along an arc on the boundary. We give a model bypass attachment in which we describe the periodic orbits of the Reeb vector field created by the bypass attachment in terms of Reeb chords of the attachment arc. As an application, we compute the contact homology of a product neighbourhood of a convex surface after a bypass attachment, and the contact homology of some contact structures on solid tori.

We construct a curve in the unstable foliation of an Anosov diffeomorphism such that the holonomy along this curve is defined on all of the corresponding stable leaves.

We show that every dendrite $X$ satisfying the condition that no subtree of $X$ contains all free arcs admits a transitive, even exactly Devaney chaotic map with arbitrarily small entropy. This gives a partial answer to a question of Baldwin from 2001.