Recurrence in generic staircases

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2012.32.1047MaRDI QIDQ765087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Serge Troubetzkoy

Publication date 19 March 2012

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0292

zbMATH Keywords

recurrencerecurrent directiontiled staircasetranslation surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40)

Abstract: The straight-line flow on almost every staircase and on almost every square tiled staircase is recurrent. For almost every square tiled staircase the set of periodic orbits is dense in the phase space.

Review text

Let \(\Sigma_2=\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{Z}}\) and let \((\Sigma_2,\sigma)\) be the full shift on two symbols. For \(s\in \Sigma_2\) the surface \(T_s\), called a staircase, consists of an infinite number of unit squares labeled by \(\mathbb{Z}\). The sides of squares are parallel to the \(x\) and \(y\) axes. The \((n+1)\)-th square is placed above the \(n\)-th one if \(s_n=0\) and to the right of it otherwise. Consider the straight-line flow \(\psi\) on \(T_s\) in a fixed direction \(\theta\in \mathbb{S}^1\). A staircase \(T_s\) is recurrent in the direction \(\theta\) if for any set in \(T_s\) of positive measure, a.e. orbit (under \(\psi\)) returns to this set. We say that \(T_s\) is recurrent if it is recurrent in a.e. direction. Let \(\mu\) be a probability measure on \(\Sigma_2\) whose support contains a periodic orbit other than \(0^\infty\) and \(1^\infty\). The main results of the paper can be summarized as follows: (i) for \(\mu\) a.e. \(s\in \Sigma_2\) the staircase \(T_s\) is recurrent, (ii) for \(\mu\) a.e. \(s\in \Sigma_2\) the staircase \(T_s\) has a dense set of purely periodic directions, (iii) if the \(\alpha\) and \(\omega\) of \(s\in \Sigma_2\) include a periodic point \(\hat{s}\in \Sigma_2\) such that the staircase \(T_{\hat{s}}\) has a dense set of strongly periodic directions, then the staircase \(T_s\) has a dense set of purely periodic directions.

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