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Gerhard Keller

Publications and source records attributed to Gerhard Keller.

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arXiv2012

Stability index for chaotically driven concave maps

We study skew product systems driven by a hyperbolic base map S (e.g. a baker map or an Anosov surface diffeomorphism) and with simple concave fibre maps on an interval [0,a] like h(x)=g(θ) tanh(x) where g(θ) is a factor driven by the base map. The fibre-wise attractor is the graph of an upper semicontinuous function ϕ(θ). For many choices of the function g, ϕhas a residual set of zeros but ϕ>0 almost everywhere w.r.t. the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measure of S^(-1). In such situations we evaluate the stability index of the global attractor of the system, which is the subgraph of ϕ, at all regular points (θ,0) in terms of the local exponents Γ(θ):=\lim_{n\to\infty} 1/n log g_n(θ) and Λ(θ):=\lim_{n\to\infty} 1/n\log|D_u S^{-n}(θ)| and of the positive zero s_* of a certain thermodynamic pressure function associated with S^(-1) and g. (In queuing theory, an analogon of s_* is known as Loyne's exponent.) The stability index was introduced by Podvigina and Ashwin in 2011 to quantify the local scaling of basins of attraction.

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arXiv2012

Bifurcation and Hausdorff dimension in families of chaotically driven maps with multiplicative forcing

We study bifurcations of invariant graphs in skew product dynamical systems driven by hyperbolic surface maps T like Anosov surface diffeomorphisms or baker maps and with one-dimensional concave fibre maps under multiplicative forcing when the forcing is scaled by a parameter r=e^{-t}. For a range of parameters two invariant graphs (a trivial and a non-trivial one) coexist, and we use thermodynamic formalism to characterize the parameter dependence of the Hausdorff and packing dimension of the set of points where both graphs coincide. As a corollary we characterize the parameter dependence of the dimension of the global attractor A_t: Hausdorff and packing dimension have a common value dim(A_t), and there is a critical parameter t_c determined by the SRB measure of T^{-1} such that dim(A_t)=3 for t < t_c and t --> dim(A_t) is strictly decreasing for t_c < t < t_{max}.

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arXiv2012

Rare events, exponential hitting times and extremal indices via spectral perturbation

We discuss how an eigenvalue perturbation formula for transfer operators of dynamical systems is related to exponential hitting time distributions and extreme value theory for processes generated by chaotic dynamical systems. We also list a number of piecewise expanding systems to which this general theory applies and discuss the prospects to apply this theory to some classes of piecewise hyperbolic systems.

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arXiv2010

Globally coupled chaotic maps with bistable behaviour: Large deviations

For a system of globally coupled chaotic maps with bistable behaviour we relate the rate function for large deviations in the system size at finite time to dynamical properties of the self consistent Perron-Frobenius operator (SCPFO) that describes the system in the infinite size limit.

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arXiv2008

Stochastically stable globally coupled maps with bistable thermodynamic limit

We study systems of globally coupled interval maps, where the identical individual maps have two expanding, fractional linear, onto branches, and where the coupling is introduced via a parameter - common to all individual maps - that depends in an analytic way on the mean field of the system. We show: 1) For the range of coupling parameters we consider, finite-size coupled systems always have a unique invariant probability density which is strictly positive and analytic, and all finite-size systems exhibit exponential decay of correlations. 2) For the same range of parameters, the self-consistent Perron-Frobenius operator which captures essential aspects of the corresponding infinite-size system (arising as the limit of the above when the system size tends to infinity), undergoes a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation from a unique stable equilibrium to the coexistence of two stable and one unstable equilibrium.

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arXiv2008

Map Lattices coupled by collisions

We introduce a new coupled map lattice model in which the weak interaction takes place via rare "collisions". By "collision" we mean a strong (possibly discontinuous) change in the system. For such models we prove uniqueness of the SRB measure and exponential space-time decay of correlations.

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arXiv2008

Rare events, escape rates and quasistationarity: some exact formulae

We present a common framework to study decay and exchanges rates in a wide class of dynamical systems. Several applications, ranging form the metric theory of continuons fractions and the Shannon capacity of contrained systems to the decay rate of metastable states, are given.

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arXiv2008

Random walk in Markovian environment

We prove a quenched central limit theorem for random walks with bounded increments in a randomly evolving environment on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We assume that the transition probabilities of the walk depend not too strongly on the environment and that the evolution of the environment is Markovian with strong spatial and temporal mixing properties.

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arXiv2008

Continuity properties of transport coefficients in simple maps

We consider families of dynamics that can be described in terms of Perron-Frobenius operators with exponential mixing properties. For piecewise C^2 expanding interval maps we rigorously prove continuity properties of the drift J(l) and of the diffusion coefficient D(l) under parameter variation. Our main result is that D(l) has a modulus of continuity of order O(|dl||log|dl|)^2), i.e. D(l) is Lipschitz continuous up to quadratic logarithmic corrections. For a special class of piecewise linear maps we provide more precise estimates at specific parameter values. Our analytical findings are verified numerically for the latter class of maps by using exact formulas for the transport coefficients. We numerically observe strong local variations of all continuity properties.

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arXiv2006

Limit theorems for coupled interval maps

We prove a local limit theorem for Lipschitz continuous observables on a weakly coupled lattice of piecewise expanding interval maps. The core of the paper is a proof that the spectral radii of the Fourier-transfer operators for such a system are strictly less than 1. This extends the approach of [KL2] where the ordinary transfer operator was studied.

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arXiv2006

Phase transitions in a piecewise expanding coupled map lattice with linear nearest neighbour coupling

We construct a mixing continuous piecewise linear map on [-1,1] with the property that a two-dimensional lattice made of these maps with a linear north and east nearest neighbour coupling admits a phase transition. We also provide a modification of this construction where the local map is an expanding analytic circle map. The basic strategy is borroughed from [Gielis-MacKay (2000)], namely we compare the dynamics of the CML to those of a probabilistic cellular automaton of Toom's type.

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arXiv2006

How chaotic are strange nonchaotic attractors

We show that the classic example of quasiperiodically forced maps with strange nonchaotic attractors described by Grebogi et al and Herman in the mid-1980s have some chaotic properties. More precisely, we show that these systems exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions, both on the whole phase space and restricted to the attractor. The results also remain valid in more general classes of quasiperiodically forced systems. Further, we include an elementary proof of a classic result by Glasner and Weiss on sensitive dependence, and we clarify the structure of the attractor in an example with two-dimensional fibers also introduced by Grebogi et al.

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arXiv2004

Eigenfunctions for smooth expanding circle maps

We construct a real-analytic circle map for which the corresponding Perron-Frobenius operator has a real-analytic eigenfunction with an eigenvalue outside the essential spectral radius when acting upon $C^1$-functions.

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arXiv2003

The Denjoy type-of argument for quasiperiodically forced circle diffeomorphisms

We carry the argument used in the proof of the Theorem of Denjoy over to the quasiperiodically forced case. Thus we derive that if a system of quasiperiodically forced circle diffeomorphisms with bounded variation of the derivative has no invariant graphs with a certain kind of topological regularity, then the system is topologically transitive.

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arXiv2001

Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius spectrum for Anosov maps

We extend a number of results from one dimensional dynamics based on spectral properties of the Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius transfer operator to Anosov diffeomorphisms on compact manifolds. This allows to develop a direct operator approach to study ergodic properties of these maps. In particular, we show that it is possible to define Banach spaces on which the transfer operator is quasicompact. (Information on the existence of an SRB measure, its smoothness properties and statistical properties readily follow from such a result.) In dimension $d=2$ we show that the transfer operator associated to smooth random perturbations of the map is close, in a proper sense, to the unperturbed transfer operator. This allows to obtain easily very strong spectral stability results, which in turn imply spectral stability results for smooth deterministic perturbations as well. Finally, we are able to implement an Ulam type finite rank approximation scheme thus reducing the study of the spectral properties of the transfer operator to a finite dimensional problem.

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arXiv1997

Random perturbations of chaotic dynamical systems. Stability of the spectrum

For piecewise expanding one-dimensional maps without periodic turning points we prove that isolated eigenvalues of small (random) perturbations of these maps are close to isolated eigenvalues of the unperturbed system. (Here ``eigenvalue'' means eigenvalue of the corresponding Perron-Frobenius operator acting on the space of functions of bounded variation.) This result applies e.g. to the approximation of the system by a finite state Markov chain and generalizes Ulam's conjecture about the approximation of the SBR invariant measure of such a map. We provide several simple examples showing that for maps with periodic turning points and for general multidimensional smooth hyperbolic maps isolated eigenvalues are typically unstable under random perturbations. Our main tool in the 1D case is a special technique for ``interchanging'' the map and the perturbation, developed in our previous paper, combined with a compactness argument.

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arXiv1996

Stochastic stability versus localization in chaotic dynamical systems

We prove stochastic stability of chaotic maps for a general class of Markov random perturbations (including singular ones) satisfying some kind of mixing conditions. One of the consequences of this statement is the proof of Ulam's conjecture about the approximation of the dynamics of a chaotic system by a finite state Markov chain. Conditions under which the localization phenomenon (i.e. stabilization of singular invariant measures) takes place are also considered. Our main tools are the so called bounded variation approach combined with the ergodic theorem of Ionescu-Tulcea and Marinescu, and a random walk argument that we apply to prove the absence of ``traps'' under the action of random perturbations.

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arXiv1994

Absorbing Cantor sets in dynamical systems: Fibonacci maps

In this paper we shall show that there exists a polynomial unimodal map f: [0,1] -> [0,1] which is 1) non-renormalizable(therefore for each x from a residual set, $ω(x)$ is equal to an interval), 2) for which $ω(c)$ is a Cantor set, and 3) for which $ω(x)=ω(c)$ for Lebesgue almost all x. So the topological and the metric attractor of such a map do not coincide. This gives the answer to a question posed by Milnor.

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