Principal Foliations of Surfaces near Ellipsoids

The lines of curvature of a surface embedded in $\R^3$ comprise its principal foliations. Principal foliations of surfaces embedded in $\R^3$ resemble phase portraits of two dimensional vector fields, but there are significant differences in their geometry because principal foliations are not orientable. The Poincar\'e-Bendixson Theorem precludes flows on the two sphere $S^2$ with recurrent trajectories larger than a periodic orbit, but there are convex surfaces whose principal foliations are closely related to non-vanishing vector fields on the torus $T^2$. This paper investigates families of such surfaces that have dense lines of curvature at a Cantor set $C$ of parameters. It introduces discrete one dimensional return maps of a cross-section whose trajectories are the intersections of a line of curvature with the cross-section. The main result proved here is that the return map of a generic surface has \emph{breaks}; i.e., jump discontinuities of its derivative. Khanin and Vul discovered a qualitative difference between one parameter families of smooth diffeomorphisms of the circle and those with breaks: smooth families have positive Lebesgue measure sets of parameters with irrational rotation number and dense trajectories while families of diffeomorphisms with a single break do not. This paper discusses whether Lebesgue almost all parameters yield closed lines of curvature in families of embedded surfaces.

Local behavior of homeomorphisms with a finite mean over spheres

It is well known that the modulus method is one of the most powerful tools for studying mappings. Distortion estimates of the modulus of paths families are established in many known classes, in particular, the modulus does not change under conformal mappings, is finitely distorted under qu\-a\-si\-con\-for\-mal mappings, at the same time, its behavior under mappings with finite distortion depends on the dilatation coefficient. One common case is the study of mappings for which this coefficient is integrable in the domain. In the context of our research, this case has been studied in detail in our previous publications and its consideration has mostly been completed. In particular, we obtained results on the local, boundary, and global behavior of homeomorphisms, the inverse of which satisfy the weight Poletsky inequality, provided that the corresponding majorant is integrable. In contrast, the focus in this paper is on mappings for which a similar inequality may contain non integrable weights. Study of the situation of non integrable majorants, in turn, is associated with the specific behavior of the weight modulus of the annulus, which is achieved on a certain function and up to constant is equal to $(n-1)$-degree of the Lehto integral. To the same extent, these results are also related to finding the extremal in the weight modulus of the ring. The basic theorem contains the result about equicontinuity of homeomorphisms with the inverse Poletsky inequality, when the corresponding weight has finite integrals on some set of spheres, and the set of corresponding radii of these spheres must have a positive Lebesgue measure. According to Fubini's theorem, the mentioned result summarizes the corresponding statement for any integrable majorants and is fundamental in the sense that it is easy to give examples of non integrable functions with finite integrals by spheres. In addition, since conformal and quasiconformal mappings satisfy the Poletsky inequality with a constant majorant in the forward and inverse directions, the basic theorem may be considered as a generalization of previously known statements in these classes. Note that the main result does not contain any geometric constraints on the definition and image domains of the mappings, in particular, the definition domain is assumed to be arbitrary, and the image domain is supposed to be only a bounded domain in Euclidean $n$-dimensional space. The proof of the main theorem is given by the contradiction, namely, we assume that the statement about equicontinuity of the corresponding family of mappings is incorrect, and we obtain a contradiction to this assumption due to upper and lower estimates of the modulus of families of paths.

"Large" strange attractors in the unfolding of a heteroclinic attractor

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We present a mechanism for the emergence of strange attractors in a one-parameter family of differential equations defined on a 3-dimensional sphere. When the parameter is zero, its flow exhibits an attracting heteroclinic network (Bykov network) made by two 1-dimensional connections and one 2-dimensional separatrix between two saddles-foci with different Morse indices. After slightly increasing the parameter, while keeping the 1-dimensional connections unaltered, we concentrate our study in the case where the 2-dimensional invariant manifolds of the equilibria do not intersect. We will show that, for a set of parameters close enough to zero with positive Lebesgue measure, the dynamics exhibits strange attractors winding around the "ghost'' of a torus and supporting Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures. We also prove the existence of a sequence of parameter values for which the family exhibits a superstable sink and describe the transition from a Bykov network to a strange attractor.</p>

On some properties of sticky Brownian motion

In this paper, we investigate a generalization of Brownian motion, called sticky skew Brownian motion, which has two interesting characteristics: stickiness and skewness. This kind of processes spends a lot more time at its sticky points so that the time they spend at the sticky points has positive Lebesgue measure. By using time change, we obtain an SDE for the sticky skew Brownian motion. Then, we present the explicit relationship between symmetric local time and occupation time. Some basic probability properties, such as transition density, are studied and we derive the explicit expression of Laplace transform of transition density for the sticky skew Brownian motion. We also consider the first hitting time problems over a constant boundary and a random jump boundary, respectively, and give some corollaries based on the results above.

Torsion Discriminance for Stability of Linear Time-Invariant Systems

This paper extends the former approaches to describe the stability of n-dimensional linear time-invariant systems via the torsion τ ( t ) of the state trajectory. For a system r ˙ ( t ) = A r ( t ) where A is invertible, we show that (1) if there exists a measurable set E 1 with positive Lebesgue measure, such that r ( 0 ) ∈ E 1 implies that lim t → + ∞ τ ( t ) ≠ 0 or lim t → + ∞ τ ( t ) does not exist, then the zero solution of the system is stable; (2) if there exists a measurable set E 2 with positive Lebesgue measure, such that r ( 0 ) ∈ E 2 implies that lim t → + ∞ τ ( t ) = + ∞ , then the zero solution of the system is asymptotically stable. Furthermore, we establish a relationship between the ith curvature ( i = 1 , 2 , ⋯ ) of the trajectory and the stability of the zero solution when A is similar to a real diagonal matrix.

Global multiplicity bounds and spectral statistics for random operators

In this paper, we consider Anderson type operators on a separable Hilbert space where the random perturbations are finite rank and the random variables have full support on [Formula: see text]. We show that spectral multiplicity has a uniform lower bound whenever the lower bound is given on a set of positive Lebesgue measure on the point spectrum away from the continuous one. We also show a deep connection between the multiplicity of pure point spectrum and local spectral statistics, in particular, we show that spectral multiplicity higher than one always gives non-Poisson local statistics in the framework of Minami theory. In particular, for higher rank Anderson models with pure point spectrum, with the randomness having support equal to [Formula: see text], there is a uniform lower bound on spectral multiplicity and in case this is larger than one, the local statistics is not Poisson.

Statistical properties for compositions of standard maps with increasing coefficient

The Chirikov standard map is a prototypical example of a one-parameter family of volume-preserving maps for which one anticipates chaotic behavior on a non-negligible (positive-volume) subset of phase space for a large set of parameters. Rigorous analysis is notoriously difficult and it remains an open question whether this chaotic region, the stochastic sea, has positive Lebesgue measure for any parameter value. Here we study a problem of intermediate difficulty: compositions of standard maps with increasing coefficient. When the coefficients increase to infinity at a sufficiently fast polynomial rate, we obtain a strong law, a central limit theorem, and quantitative mixing estimates for Holder observables. The methods used are not specific to the standard map and apply to a class of compositions of ‘prototypical’ two-dimensional maps with hyperbolicity on ‘most’ of phase space.

On exponential decay of the variance of BLUE for the mean of a stationary sequence

In this paper, we obtain necessary as well as sufficient conditions for exponential rate of decrease of the variance of the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) for the unknown mean of a stationary sequence possessing a spectral density. In particular, we show that a necessary condition for variance of BLUE to decrease to zero exponentially is that the spectral density vanishes on a set of positive Lebesgue measure in any vicinity of zero.

Volume lemmas and large deviations for partially hyperbolic endomorphisms

We consider partially hyperbolic attractors for non-singular endomorphisms admitting an invariant stable bundle and a positively invariant cone field with non-uniform cone expansion at a positive Lebesgue measure set of points. We prove volume lemmas for both Lebesgue measure on the topological basin of the attractor and the SRB measure supported on the attractor. As a consequence, under a mild assumption we prove exponential large-deviation bounds for the convergence of Birkhoff averages associated to continuous observables with respect to the SRB measure.