A class of Newton maps with Julia sets of Lebesgue measure zero

Let $$g(z)=\int _0^zp(t)\exp (q(t))\,dt+c$$ g ( z ) = ∫ 0 z p ( t ) exp ( q ( t ) ) d t + c where p, q are polynomials and $$c\in {\mathbb {C}}$$ c ∈ C , and let f be the function from Newton’s method for g. We show that under suitable assumptions on the zeros of $$g''$$ g ′ ′ the Julia set of f has Lebesgue measure zero. Together with a theorem by Bergweiler, our result implies that $$f^n(z)$$ f n ( z ) converges to zeros of g almost everywhere in $${\mathbb {C}}$$ C if this is the case for each zero of $$g''$$ g ′ ′ that is not a zero of g or $$g'$$ g ′ . In order to prove our result, we establish general conditions ensuring that Julia sets have Lebesgue measure zero.

Escaping Orbits Are also Rare in the Almost Periodic Fermi–Ulam Ping-Pong

We study the one-dimensional Fermi–Ulam ping-pong problem with a Bohr almost periodic forcing function and show that the set of initial condition leading to escaping orbits typically has Lebesgue measure zero.

The Family of Central Cantor Sets with Packing Dimension Zero

As in the recent article of M. Balcerzak, T. Filipczak and P. Nowakowski, we identify the family CS of central Cantor subsets of [0, 1] with the Polish space X : = (0, 1)ℕ equipped with the probability product measure µ. We investigate the size of the family P 0 of sets in CS with packing dimension zero. We show that P 0 is meager and of µ measure zero while it is treated as the corresponding subset of X. We also check possible inclusions between P 0 and other subfamilies CS consisting of small sets.

Threshold Phenomena for Random Cones

We consider an even probability distribution on the d-dimensional Euclidean space with the property that it assigns measure zero to any hyperplane through the origin. Given N independent random vectors with this distribution, under the condition that they do not positively span the whole space, the positive hull of these vectors is a random polyhedral cone (and its intersection with the unit sphere is a random spherical polytope). It was first studied by Cover and Efron. We consider the expected face numbers of these random cones and describe a threshold phenomenon when the dimension d and the number N of random vectors tend to infinity. In a similar way we treat the solid angle, and more generally the Grassmann angles. We further consider the expected numbers of k-faces and of Grassmann angles of index $$d-k$$ d - k when also k tends to infinity.

The Poincaré–Birkhoff Theorem for a Class of Degenerate Planar Hamiltonian Systems

In this paper, we investigate the problem of the existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions to the planar Hamiltonian system x ′ = - λ ⁢ α ⁢ ( t ) ⁢ f ⁢ ( y ) x^{\prime}=-\lambda\alpha(t)f(y) , y ′ = λ ⁢ β ⁢ ( t ) ⁢ g ⁢ ( x ) y^{\prime}=\lambda\beta(t)g(x) , where α , β \alpha,\beta are non-negative 𝑇-periodic coefficients and λ > 0 \lambda>0 . We focus our study to the so-called “degenerate” situation, namely when the set Z := supp ⁡ α ∩ supp ⁡ β Z:=\operatorname{supp}\alpha\cap\operatorname{supp}\beta has Lebesgue measure zero. It is known that, in this case, for some choices of 𝛼 and 𝛽, no nontrivial 𝑇-periodic solution exists. On the opposite, we show that, depending of some geometric configurations of 𝛼 and 𝛽, the existence of a large number of 𝑇-periodic solutions (as well as subharmonic solutions) is guaranteed (for λ > 0 \lambda>0 and large). Our proof is based on the Poincaré–Birkhoff twist theorem. Applications are given to Volterra’s predator-prey model with seasonal effects.

The bifurcation locus for numbers of bounded type

We define a family $\mathcal {B}(t)$ of compact subsets of the unit interval which provides a filtration of the set of numbers whose continued fraction expansion has bounded digits. We study how the set $\mathcal {B}(t)$ changes as the parameter t ranges in $[0,1]$ , and see that the family undergoes period-doubling bifurcations and displays the same transition pattern from periodic to chaotic behaviour as the family of real quadratic polynomials. The set $\mathcal {E}$ of bifurcation parameters is a fractal set of measure zero and Hausdorff dimension $1$ . The Hausdorff dimension of $\mathcal {B}(t)$ varies continuously with the parameter, and we show that the dimension of each individual set equals the dimension of the corresponding section of the bifurcation set $\mathcal {E}$ .

On the Differentiation of Henstock and McShane Integrals

It is well known that the derivative of the primitive of 1-dimensional Henstock integral exists almost everywhere. Point-interval pairs used in the derivative are Henstock point-interval pairs, which are consistent with point-interval pairs used in the Henstock integral. Note that “almost everywhere” is a set of points, more precisely, the derivative does not exist on a set of points with measure zero. We can transform a set of Henstock point-interval pairs to a set of points with measure zero because of Vitali’s covering theorem. For 1-dimensional McShane integrals, [Formula: see text]-dimensional McShane and Henstock integrals, covering theorems of Vitali’s type cannot be applied. In this paper, we shall discuss differentiation of [Formula: see text]-dimensional McShane and Henstock integrals.

On connection of finite distortion mappings with length distortion in $\mathbb{R}^n$

The present paper is devoted to the investigations of mappings with finite distortion in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geqslant 2$. In the work it is proved that every open discrete mapping with finite distortion by Iwaniec such that the branch set of $f$ is of measure zero is a mapping with finite length distortion provided that the corresponding outer dilatation satisfies the inequality $K_O (x, f) \leqslant K(x)$ a.e., where $K(x) \in L_{loc}^{n-1}(D)$.