Amorphic complexity

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/29/2/528MaRDI QIDQ2794862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel Fuhrmann, Maik Gröger, T. Jäger

Publication date 11 March 2016

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01036

zbMATH Keywords

almost 1-1 extensionsBesicovitch spacelow complexity dynamical systemsslow entropiesstrange non-chaotic attractorsToeplitz flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Morse-Smale systems (37D15)

Abstract: We introduce amorphic complexity as a new topological invariant that measures the complexity of dynamical systems in the regime of zero entropy. Its main purpose is to detect the very onset of disorder in the asymptotic behaviour. For instance, it gives positive value to Denjoy examples on the circle and Sturmian subshifts, while being zero for all isometries and Morse-Smale systems. After discussing basic properties and examples, we show that amorphic complexity and the underlying asymptotic separation numbers can be used to distinguish almost automorphic minimal systems from equicontinuous ones. For symbolic systems, amorphic complexity equals the box dimension of the associated Besicovitch space. In this context, we concentrate on regular Toeplitz flows and give a detailed description of the relation to the scaling behaviour of the densities of the p-skeletons. Finally, we take a look at strange non-chaotic attractors appearing in so-called pinched skew product systems. Continuous-time systems, more general group actions and the application to cut and project quasicrystals will be treated in subsequent work.

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