Jordan decomposition and the recurrent set of flows of automorphisms

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Abstract: In this paper we show that any linear vector field mathcalX on a connected Lie group G admits a Jordan decomposition and the recurrent set of the associated ow of automorphisms is given as the intersection of the fixed points of the hyperbolic and nilpotent components of its Jordan decomposition.


The paper is devoted to a Jordan decomposition of linear vector fields and to the description of their recurrent sets. A vector field \(\mathcal X\) on a compact Lie group \(G\) is {linear} if its flow \(\{\varphi_t\}_{t\in \mathbb R}\) is included as a one-parameter subgroup in the authomorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}G\), \((d\varphi^{\mathcal X}_t)_e = e^{t\mathcal X}\). As a linear operator, the Lyapunov spectrum of \(\mathcal X\) is decomposed into the sum of three parts: elliptic, hyperbolic and nilpotent. A {Jordan decomposition} of \(\mathcal X\) is the sum \(\mathcal X = \mathcal X_\mathrm{ell} + \mathcal X_\mathrm{hyp} + \mathcal X_\mathrm{nil}\) of of commuting parts: the elliptic \(\mathcal X_\mathrm{ell}\), the hyperbolic \(\mathcal X_\mathrm{hyp}\) and the nilpotent \(\mathcal X_\mathrm{nil}\) with the corresponding flows \(\{\varphi^\mathrm{ell}_t\}_{t\in\mathbb R}\), \(\{\varphi^\mathrm{hyp}_t\}_{t\in\mathbb R}\) and \(\{\varphi^\mathrm{nil}_t\}_{t\in\mathbb R}\). The main result of the paper states that the recurrent set \(\mathcal R(\varphi_t)\) is the intersection of the fixed point sets \(\mathrm{fix}(\varphi^\mathrm{hyp})\) and \(\mathrm{fix}(\varphi^\mathrm{nil})\) (see Theorems 1.1 and 4.2).











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