Spectral analysis and an area-preserving extension of a piecewise linear intermittent map

Abstract

We investigate spectral properties of a 1-dimensional piecewise linear intermittent map, which has not only a marginal fixed point but also a singular structure suppressing injections of the orbits into neighborhoods of the marginal fixed point. We explicitly derive generalized eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Frobenius--Perron operator of the map for classes of observables and piecewise constant initial densities, and it is found that the Frobenius--Perron operator has two simple real eigenvalues 1 and $λ_d \in (-1,0)$, and a continuous spectrum on the real line $[0,1]$. From these spectral properties, we also found that this system exhibits power law decay of correlations. This analytical result is found to be in a good agreement with numerical simulations. Moreover, the system can be extended to an area-preserving invertible map defined on the unit square. This extended system is similar to the baker transformation, but does not satisfy hyperbolicity. A relation between this area-preserving map and a billiard system is also discussed.