The entropy efficiency of point-push mapping classes on the punctured disk

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.2265MaRDI QIDQ640312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Harrington, Philip Boyland

Publication date 18 October 2011

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1829

zbMATH Keywords

entropy efficiencyfluid mixingpseudo-Anosov

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: We study the maximal entropy per unit generator of push-point mapping classes on the punctured disk. Our work is motivated by fluid mixing by rods in a planar domain. If a single rod moves among N-fixed obstacles, the resulting fluid diffeomorphism is in the push-point mapping class associated with the loop in pi_1(D^2 - {N points}) traversed by the single stirrer. The collection of motions in each of which the stirrer goes around a single obstacle generate the group of push-point mapping classes, and the entropy efficiency with respect to these generators gives a topological measure of the mixing per unit energy expenditure of the mapping class. We give lower and upper bounds for Eff(N), the maximal efficiency in the presence of N obstacles, and prove that Eff(N) -> log(3) as N -> infty. For the lower bound we compute the entropy efficiency of a specific push-point protocol, HSP_N, which we conjecture achieves the maximum. The entropy computation uses the action on chains in a �-covering space of the punctured disk which is designed for push-point protocols. For the upper bound we estimate the exponential growth rate of the action of the push-point mapping classes on the fundamental group of the punctured disk using a collection of incidence matrices and then computing the generalized spectral radius of the collection.

Review text

The topological entropy \(h(f)\) of a map \(f\) is a standard measure of its dynamical complexity. The authors study ``the maximal entropy per unit generator of point-push mapping classes on the punctured disk. The work is motivated by fluid mixing by rods in a planar domain. ``The collection of motions where each stirrer goes around a single obstacle generate the group of point-push mapping classes, and the entropy efficiency with respect to these generators gives a topological measure of the mixing per unit energy of the mapping class. As the main result of the paper the authors ``give lower and upper bounds for \(\mathrm{Eff}(N)\), the maximal efficiency in the presence of \(N\) obstacles, and prove that \(\mathrm{Eff}(N)\rightarrow \log(3)\) as \(N\rightarrow \infty\). For the lower bound they compute the entropy efficiency of a specific point-push protocol, \(HSP_N\), which is conjectured to achieve the maximum.

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