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Publications and source records attributed to Bassam Fayad.
We prove that any real-analytic Hamiltonian in five or more degrees-of-freedom, with a locally integrable non-degenerate elliptic equilibrium with indefinite quadratic part, can be perturbed within the real analytic category, while preserving the Birkhoff normal form at the equilibrium up to any arbitrary order, so that the equilibrium becomes Lyapunov unstable.
We develop an abstract KAM theorem for systems of infinitely many interacting particles with decaying masses and all-to-all interactions. Using this framework, we construct full-dimensional KAM tori for infinite-dimensional mechanical systems exhibiting long range interactions.
We show that every ergodic dynamical system induces a system with pure Lebesgue spectrum of infinite multiplicity.
We construct on $\R^{2d}$, for any $d \geq 3$, smooth Hamiltonians having an elliptic equilibrium with an arbitrary frequency, that is not accumulated by a positive measure set of invariant tori. For $d\geq 4$, the Hamiltonians we construct have not any invariant torus of dimension $d$. Our examples are obtained by a version of the successive conjugation scheme {\it à la} Anosov-Katok.
We consider two interacting particles on the circle. The particles are subject to stochastic forcing, which is modeled by white noise. In addition, one of the particles is subject to friction, which models energy dissipation due to the interaction with the environment. We show that, in the diffusive limit, the absolute value of the velocity of the other particle converges to the reflected Brownian motion. In other words, the interaction between the particles are asymptotically negligible in the scaling limit. The proof combines averaging for large energies with large deviation estimates for small energies.
We construct a smooth area preserving flow on a genus 2 surface with exactly one open uniquely ergodic component, that is asymmetrically bounded by separatrices of non-degenerate saddles and that is nevertheless not mixing.
We prove rotations-reducibility for close to constant quasi-periodic $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ cocycles in one frequency in the finite regularity and smooth cases, and derive some applications to quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators.
We show the following dichotomy for a linear parabolic $\mathbb Z^2$-action $ρ_L$ on the torus with at least one step-2 generator: (i) Any affine $\mathbb Z^2$-action with linear part $ρ_L$ has a $\mathbb Z$-factor that is either identity or genuinely parabolic, and is thus not KAM-rigid, or (ii) Almost every affine $\mathbb Z^2$-action with linear part $ρ_L$ is KAM-rigid under volume preserving perturbations.
We construct conservative analytic flows of zero metric entropy which satisfy the classical central limit theorem.
We give an example of a real analytic reparametrization of a minimal translation flow on $\mathbb{T}^{5}$ that has a Lebesgue spectrum with infinite multiplicity.
We prove the existence of real analytic Hamiltonians with topologically unstable quasi-periodic invariant tori. Using various versions of our examples, we solve the following problems in the stability theory of analytic quasi-periodic motion: $\quad i)$ Show the existence of topologically unstable tori of arbitrary frequency. Moreover, the Birkhoff Normal Form at the invariant torus can be chosen to be convergent, equal to a planar or non-planar polynomial. $\quad ii)$ Show the optimality of the exponential stability for Diophantine tori. ' $\quad iii)$ Show the existence of real analytic Hamiltonians that are integrable on half of the phase space, and such that all orbits on the other half accumulate at infinity. $\quad iv)$ For sufficiently Liouville vectors, obtain invariant tori that are not accumulated by a positive measure set of quasi-periodic invariant tori.
We present examples of nearly integrable analytic Hamiltonian systems with several strong diffusion properties: topological weak mixing and diffusion at all times. These examples are obtained by AbC constructions with several frequencies.
Any $C^d$ conservative map $f$ of the $d$-dimensional unit ball $\mathbb B^d$ can be realized by renormalized iteration of a $C^d$ perturbation of identity: there exists a conservative diffeomorphism of $\mathbb B^d$, arbitrarily close to identity in the $C^d$ topology, that has a periodic disc on which the return dynamics after a $C^d$ change of coordinates is exactly $f$.
A classical Borel Cantelli Lemma gives conditions for deciding whether an infinite number of rare events will almost surely happen. In this article, we propose an extension of Borel Cantelli Lemma to characterize the multiple occurrence of events on the same time scale. Our results imply multiple Logarithm Laws for recurrence and hitting times, as well as Poisson Limit Laws for systems which are exponentially mixing of all orders. The applications include geodesic flows on compact negatively curved manifolds, geodesic excursions, Diophantine approximations and extreme value theory for dynamical systems.
We study the Kronecker sequence $\{nα\}_{n\leq N}$ on the torus ${\mathbb T}^d$ when $α$ is uniformly distributed on ${\mathbb T}^d.$ We show that the discrepancy of the number of visits of this sequence to a random box, normalized by $\ln^d N$, converges as $N\to\infty$ to a Cauchy distribution. The key ingredient of the proof is a Poisson limit theorem for the Cartan action on the space of $d+1$ dimensional lattices.
A new diffusion mechanism from the neighborhood of elliptic equilibria for Hamiltonian flows in three or more degrees of freedom is introduced. We thus obtain explicit real entire Hamiltonians on $\R^{2d}$, $d\geq 4$, that have a Lyapunov unstable elliptic equilibrium with an arbitrary chosen frequency vector whose coordinates are not all of the same sign. For non-resonant frequency vectors, our examples all have divergent Birkhoff normal form at the equilibrium. On $\R^4$, we give explicit examples of real entire Hamiltonians having an equilibrium with an arbitrary chosen non-resonant frequency vector and a divergent Birkhoff normal form.
We show that one-dimensional random walks in a quasi-periodic environment with Liouville frequency generically have an erratic statistical behavior. In the recurrent case we show that neither quenched nor annealed limit theorems hold and both drift and variance exhibit wild oscillations, being logarithmic at some times and almost linear at other times. In the transient case we show that the annealed Central Limit Theorem fails generically. These results are in stark contrast with the Diophantine case where the Central Limit Theorem with linear drift and variance was established by Sinai.
We discuss some classical and recent results and open problems on the statistical behavior of ergodic sums above toral translations, and their applications to Diophantine approximations and to ergodic properties of systems related to quasi-periodic dynamics such as skew products, cylindrical cascades and special flows.