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Invariant densities of random maps have lower bounds on their supports

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 2006

A random map is a discrete-time dynamical system in which one of a number of transformations is randomly selected and applied at each iteration of the process. The asymptotic properties of a random map are described by its invariant densities. If Pelikan's average expanding condition is satisfied, then the random map has invariant densities. For individual maps, piecewise expanding is sufficient to establish many important properties of the invariant densities, in particular, the fact that the densities are bounded away from 0 on their supports. It is of interest to see if this property is transferred to random maps satisfying Pelikan's condition. We show that if all the maps constituting the random map are piecewise expanding, then the same result is true. However, if one or more of the maps are not expanding, this may not be true: we present an example where Pelikan's condition is satisfied, but not all the maps are piecewise expanding, and show that the invariant dens...

Absolutely continuous invariant measures for random maps with position dependent probabilities

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2003

A random map is discrete-time dynamical system in which one of a number of transformations is randomly selected and applied at each iteration of the process. Usually the map τ k is chosen from a finite collection of maps with constant probability p k. In this note we allow the p k 's to be functions of position. In this case, the random map cannot be considered to be a skew product. The main result provides a sufficient condition for the existence of an absolutely continuous invariant measure for position dependent random maps on [0, 1]. Geometrical and topological properties of sets of absolutely continuous invariant measures, attainable by means of position dependent random maps, are studied theoretically and numerically.

Statistical and deterministic dynamics of maps with memory

Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017

We consider a dynamical system to have memory if it remembers the current state as well as the state before that. The dynamics is defined as follows: x n+1 = Tα(x n−1 , xn) = τ (α • xn + (1 − α) • x n−1), where τ is a one-dimensional map on I = [0, 1] and 0 < α < 1 determines how much memory is being used. Tα does not define a dynamical system since it maps U = I × I into I. In this note we let τ to be the symmetric tent map. We shall prove that for 0 < α < 0.46, the orbits of {xn} are described statistically by an absolutely continuous invariant measure (acim) in two dimensions. As α approaches 0.5 from below, that is, as we approach a balance between the memory state and the present state, the support of the acims become thinner until at α = 0.5, all points have period 3 or eventually possess period 3. For 0.5 < α < 0.75, we have a global attractor: for all starting points in U except (0, 0), the orbits are attracted to the fixed point (2/3, 2/3). At α = 0.75, we have slightly more complicated periodic behavior.

On ergodic and mixing properties of the triangle map

Physica D-nonlinear Phenomena, 2009

In this paper, we study in detail, both analytically and numerically, the dynamical properties of the triangle map, a piecewise parabolic automorphism of the two-dimensional torus, for different values of the two independent parameters defining the map. The dynamics is studied numerically by means of two different symbolic encoding schemes, both relying on the fact that it maps polygons to polygons: in the first scheme we consider dynamically generated partitions made out of suitable sets of disjoint polygons, in the second we consider the standard binary partition of the torus induced by the discontinuity set. These encoding schemes are studied in detail and shown to be compatible, although not equivalent. The ergodic properties of the triangle map are then investigated in terms of the Markov transition matrices associated to the above schemes and furthermore compared to the spectral properties of the Koopman operator in L2(T2)L2(T2). Finally, a stochastic version of the triangle map is introduced and studied. A simple heuristic analysis of the latter yields the correct statistical and scaling behaviours of the correlation functions of the original map.

Random iterates of monotone maps

Review of Economic Design, 2008

In this paper we prove the existence,uniqueness and stability of the invariant distribution of a random dynamical system in which the admissible family of laws of motion consists of monotone maps from a closed subset of a finite dimensional Euclidean space into itself.

Random perturbations of non-uniformly expanding maps

2000

We give both sufficient conditions and necessary conditions for the stochastic stability of non-uniformly expanding maps either with or without critical sets. We also show that the number of probability measures describing the statistical asymptotic behaviour of random orbits is bounded by the number of SRB measures if the noise level is small enough.

A generalization of Straube's theorem: existence of absolutely continuous invariant measures for random maps

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 2005

A random map is a discrete-time dynamical system in which one of a number of transformations is randomly selected and applied at each iteration of the process. In this paper, we study random maps. The main result provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of absolutely continuous invariant measure for a random map with constant probabilities and position-dependent probabilities.

Some remarks on the problem of ergodicity of the Standard Map

Physics Letters A, 2000

We consider the problem of removing the islands of stability in the phase space of the standard map by means of tuning the parameter. A possible construction which gives a classi cation of periodic chains of islands in terms of a symbolic dynamics and predicts the values of the parameters for which the island with a given symbolic code exists is suggested and discussed.

On Some Properties of Invariant Sets of Two-Dimensional Noninvertible Maps

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 1997

We study the nature and dependence on parameters of certain invariant sets of noninvertible maps of the plane. The invariant sets we consider are unstable manifolds of saddle-type fixed and periodic points, as well as attracting invariant circles. Since for such maps a point may have more than one first-rank preimages, the geometry, transitions, and general properties of these sets are more complicated than the corresponding sets for diffeomorphisms. The critical curve(s) (locus of points having at least two coincident preimages) as well as its antecedent(s), the curve(s) where the map is singular (or "curve of merging preimages") play a fundamental role in such studies. We focus on phenomena arising from the interaction of one-dimensional invariant sets with these critical curves, and present some illustrative examples.