Kick stability in groups and dynamical systems

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/14/5/321MaRDI QIDQ2757163zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonid Polterovich, Zeév Rudnick

Publication date 2001

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005031

zbMATH Keywords

flowkicked systemsrecurrence propertiesstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving one-parameter continuous families of measure-preserving transformations (37A10) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: We consider a general construction of ``kicked systems. Let G be a group of measure preserving transformations of a probability space. Given its one-parameter/cyclic subgroup (the flow), and any sequence of elements (the kicks) we define the kicked dynamics on the space by alternately flowing with given period, then applying a kick. Our main finding is the following stability phenomenon: the kicked system often inherits recurrence properties of the original flow. We present three main examples. 1) G is the torus. We show that for generic linear flows, and any sequence of kicks, the trajectories of the kicked system are uniformly distributed for almost all periods. 2) G is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R) acting on the unit tangent bundle of a Riemann surface. The flow is generated by a single element of G, and we take any bounded sequence of elements of G as our kicks. We prove that the kicked system is mixing for all sufficiently large periods if and only if the generator is of infinite order and is not conjugate to its inverse in G. 3) G is the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold. We assume that the flow is rapidly growing in the sense of Hofer's norm, and the kicks are bounded. We prove that for a positive proportion of the periods the kicked system inherits a kind of energy conservation law and is thus superrecurrent. We use tools of geometric group theory and symplectic topology.

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