Ergodicity and exactness of the shift on C[0,\(\infty)\) and the semiflow of a first-order partial differential equation (Q1081755)

The semi-linear evolution equation \[ (\partial /\partial t)u(t,x)+(\partial /\partial x)u(t,x)=f(x,u),\quad x\in [0,1],\quad t\in [0,\infty), \] with initial condition \(u(0,x)=v(x)\), under a set of hypotheses on f, c that is designed after a model for the dynamics of self-reproducing cell populations is considered. For this problem there exists a continuous semigroup \(S_ t\) that features as a solution operator \(u(t,x)=(S_ tv)(x).\) With regards to the corresponding dynamics the existence of a chaotic, invariant set V of \(S_ t\) is known. In previous work the author has shown that the set V contains periodic points of any period and those points are dense in V. In the present work the authors continue this line of research by showing that V admits an ergodic probability measure \(\mu\) with the properties: (1) The set of periodic points in V is a set of measure zero. (2) Any subset \(A\subset V\) of non-zero measure 'blows up' in time to a set of measure 1, i.e. \(\lim_{t\to \infty}\mu (S_ t(A))=1.\) The proof is based on corresponding properties of the shift operator \(T_ t\) \((T_ t(v)(s)=v(s+t)\), s,t,\(\geq 0)\) and the relationship \(\phi \circ S_ t=T_ t\circ \phi\), where \(\phi (v)(t)=(S_ tv)(1)\).