Return- and hitting-time limits for rare events of null-recurrent Markov maps

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 244-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOISE PÈNE ◽  
BENOÎT SAUSSOL ◽  
ROLAND ZWEIMÜLLER
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Points ◽  
Rare Events ◽  
Hitting Time ◽  
Abstract Result ◽  
Limit Distributions ◽  
Interval Maps ◽  
Time Limits ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Asymptotic Type ◽  
Measure Preserving Transformations

We determine limit distributions for return- and hitting-time functions of certain asymptotically rare events for conservative ergodic infinite measure preserving transformations with regularly varying asymptotic type. Our abstract result applies, in particular, to shrinking cylinders around typical points of null-recurrent renewal shifts and infinite measure preserving interval maps with neutral fixed points.

scholarly journals Return- and hitting-time distributions of small sets in infinite measure preserving systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 2239-2273
Author(s):  
SIMON RECHBERGER ◽  
ROLAND ZWEIMÜLLER
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Finite Measure ◽  
Hitting Time ◽  
Independent Random Variables ◽  
Limit Laws ◽  
Interval Maps ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Sufficient Conditions For Convergence ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One

We study convergence of return- and hitting-time distributions of small sets $E_{k}$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(E_{k})\rightarrow 0$ in recurrent ergodic dynamical systems preserving an infinite measure $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}$. Some properties which are easy in finite measure situations break down in this null-recurrent set-up. However, in the presence of a uniform set $Y$ with wandering rate regularly varying of index $1-\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}\in (0,1]$, there is a scaling function suitable for all subsets of $Y$. In this case, we show that return distributions for the $E_{k}$ converge if and only if the corresponding hitting-time distributions do, and we derive an explicit relation between the two limit laws. Some consequences of this result are discussed. In particular, this leads to improved sufficient conditions for convergence to ${\mathcal{E}}^{1/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}{\mathcal{G}}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}$, where ${\mathcal{E}}$ and ${\mathcal{G}}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}$ are independent random variables, with ${\mathcal{E}}$ exponentially distributed and ${\mathcal{G}}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}}$ following the one-sided stable law of order $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ (and ${\mathcal{G}}_{1}:=1$). The same principle also reveals the limit laws (different from the above) which occur at hyperbolic periodic points of prototypical null-recurrent interval maps. We also derive similar results for the barely recurrent $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}=0$ case.

Ergodic properties of infinite measure-preserving interval maps with indifferent fixed points

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1519-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROLAND ZWEIMÜLLER
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Invariant Measures ◽  
Transfer Operator ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Interval Maps ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Ergodic Properties ◽  
Markov Extensions

We consider piecewise twice differentiable maps $T$ on $[0,1]$ with indifferent fixed points giving rise to infinite invariant measures, and we study their behaviour on ergodic components. As we do not assume the existence of a Markov partition but only require the first image of the fundamental partition to be finite, we use canonical Markov extensions to first prove pointwise dual-ergodicity, which, together with an identification of wandering rates, leads to distributional limit theorems. We show that $T$ satisfies Rohlin's formula and prove a variant of the Shannon–McMillan–Breiman theorem. Moreover, we give a stronger limit theorem for the transfer operator providing us with a large collection of uniform and Darling–Kac sets. This enables us to apply recent results from fluctuation theory.

scholarly journals On multiple recurrence and other properties of ‘nice’ infinite measure-preserving transformations

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1345-1368 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON AARONSON ◽  
HITOSHI NAKADA
Keyword(s):  
Geodesic Flows ◽  
Multiple Recurrence ◽  
Weak Mixing ◽  
Interval Maps ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Markov Shifts ◽  
Measure Preserving Transformations

We discuss multiple versions of rational ergodicity and rational weak mixing for ‘nice’ transformations, including Markov shifts, certain interval maps and hyperbolic geodesic flows. These properties entail multiple recurrence.

Piecewise isometries, uniform distribution and 3log 2−π2/8

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1862-1888 ◽  
Author(s):  
YITWAH CHEUNG ◽  
AREK GOETZ ◽  
ANTHONY QUAS
Keyword(s):  
Phase Space ◽  
Uniform Distribution ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Periodic Points ◽  
Full Measure ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Important Family ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Piecewise Isometries ◽  
Measure Preserving Transformations

AbstractWe use analytic tools to study a simple family of piecewise isometries of the plane parameterized by an angle. In previous work, we showed the existence of large numbers of periodic points, each surrounded by a ‘periodic island’. We also proved conservativity of the systems as infinite measure-preserving transformations. In experiments it is observed that the periodic islands fill up a large part of the phase space and it has been asked whether the periodic islands form a set of full measure. In this paper we study the periodic islands around an important family of periodic orbits and demonstrate that for all angle parameters that are irrational multiples of π, the islands have asymptotic density in the plane of 3log 2−π2/8≈0.846.

Conjugates of Infinite Measure Preserving Transformations

1988 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 742-749
Author(s):  
S. Alpern ◽  
J. R. Choksi ◽  
V. S. Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Conjugacy Class ◽  
Ergodic Theory ◽  
Lebesgue Space ◽  
Finite Measure ◽  
Infinite Measure ◽  
Ergodic Automorphism ◽  
Measurable Set ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Measure Preserving Transformations

In this paper we consider a question concerning the conjugacy class of an arbitrary ergodic automorphism σ of a sigma finite Lebesgue space (X, , μ) (i.e., a is a ju-preserving bimeasurable bijection of (X, , μ). Specifically we proveTHEOREM 1. Let τ, σ be any pair of ergodic automorphisms of an infinite sigma finite Lebesgue space (X, , μ). Let F be any measurable set such thatThen there is some conjugate σ' of σ such that σ'(x) = τ(x) for μ-almost every x in F.The requirement that F ∪ τF has a complement of infinite measure is, for example, satisfied when F has finite measure, and in that case, the theorem was proved by Choksi and Kakutani ([7], Theorem 6).Conjugacy theorems of this nature have proved to be very useful in proving approximation results in ergodic theory. These conjugacy results all assert the denseness of the conjugacy class of an ergodic (or antiperiodic) automorphism in various topologies and subspaces.

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