An example of a pathological random perturbation of the Cat Map

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Abstract: In this paper we give an example of a random perturbation of the Cat Map that produces a "global statistical attractor" in the form of a line segment. The transition probabilities for this random perturbation are smooth in some but not all directions. All initial distributions on mathbbT2 are attracted to distributions supported on this line segment.


Let \(f: \mathbb{T}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{T}^2\) be the Cat Map on the two-dimensional Torus \(\mathbb{T}^2\), and for \(x\in \mathbb{T}^2\) let \(Q_x\) be the uniform distribution on the integral curve \(\gamma_x\) defined by a \(C^\infty\) vector field on \(\mathbb{T}^2\). The associated random perturbation is the Markov chain with transition kernel \((x,A)\mapsto Q_{fx}(A)\) defined for \(x\in \mathbb{T}^2\) where \(A\) is a Borel subset of \(\mathbb{T}^2\). This perturbation is in fact generated by the action of this kernel on the set of probability measures \(\nu\) on \(\mathbb{T}^2\), i.e., by the operator NEWLINE\[NEWLINE {\mathcal{F}}_*\nu (A):= \int_{\mathbb{T}^2} Q_{fx}(A) \nu(x), NEWLINE\]NEWLINE denoted by \(\mathcal{F}\). Under some convenient conditions, the author proves essentially that:NEWLINENEWLINE1. The only \(\mathcal{F}\)-invariant measure is the unique singular measure \(\mu\) supported on some line segment of the local stable manifold of the fixed point.NEWLINENEWLINE2. If \(\nu\) is any Borel probability measure on \(\mathbb{T}^2\), then \({\mathcal{F}}_*^n \nu\) has all of its limit points supported on the same line segment. In particular, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} {\mathcal{F}}_*^i \nu \rightarrow \mu. NEWLINE\]











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