Continuous self-similarity in parametric piecewise isometries

arXiv1508.05885MaRDI QIDQ6264809FDOQ6264809

J. H. Lowenstein, Franco Vivaldi

Publication date: 24 August 2015

Abstract: We exhibit two distinct renormalization scenarios in many-parameter families of piecewise isometries (PWI) of a rhombus. The rotational component, defined over the quadratic field $mathbbK=mathbbQ(sqrt5)$, is fixed. The translations are specified by affine functions of the parameters, with coefficients in $mathbbK$. In each case the parameters range over a convex domain. In one scenario the PWI is self-similar if and only if one parameter belongs to $mathbbK$, while the other is free. Such a continuous self-similarity is due to the possibility of merging adjacent atoms of an induced PWI, a common phenomenon in the Rauzy-Veech induction for interval exchange transformations. In the second scenario, the phase space splits into several disjoint (non-convex) invariant components. We show that each component has continuous self-similarity, but due to the transversality of the corresponding foliations, full self-similarity in phase space is achieved if and only if both parameters belong to $mathbbK$. All our computations are exact, using algebraic numbers.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Universality and renormalization of dynamical systems (37E20) Renormalization of holomorphic dynamical systems (37F25) Families and moduli spaces in arithmetic and non-Archimedean dynamical systems (37P45)

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