Let X be a compact metric space and let $f: X\!\rightarrow \! X$ be a homeomorphism on X. We show that if f is both pointwise recurrent and expansive, then the dynamical system $(X, f)$ is topologically conjugate to a subshift of some symbolic system. Moreover, if f is pointwise positively recurrent, then the subshift is semisimple; a counterexample is given to show the necessity of positive recurrence to ensure the semisimplicity.

We show that in the context of homogeneous Cantor sets, there are generically five possible (open and dense) structures for their arithmetic sum: a Cantor set, an L, R, M-Cantorval and a finite union of closed intervals. The dense case has been dealt with previously. In this paper, we explicitly present pairs of this space which have stable intersection, while not satisfying the generalized thickness test. Also, all the pairs of middle homogeneous Cantor sets whose arithmetic sum is a closed interval are identified.

For $k \geq 2$ , we prove that in a $C^{1}$ -open and $C^{k}$ -dense set of some classes of $C^{k}$ -Anosov flows, all Lyapunov exponents have multiplicity one with respect to appropriate measures. The classes are geodesic flows with equilibrium states of Holder-continuous potentials, volume-preserving flows, and all fiber-bunched Anosov flows with equilibrium states of Holder-continuous potentials.

We find generalized conformal measures and equilibrium states for random dynamics generated by Ruelle expanding maps, under which the dynamics exhibits exponential decay of correlations. This extends results by Baladi [Correlation spectrum of quenched and annealed equilibrium states for random expanding maps. Comm. Math. Phys. 186 (1997), 671–700] and Carvalho et al [Semigroup actions of expanding maps. J. Stat. Phys. 116(1) (2017), 114–136], where the randomness is driven by an independent and identically distributed process and the phase space is assumed to be compact. We give applications in the context of weighted non-autonomous iterated function systems, free semigroup actions and introduce a boundary of equilibria for not necessarily free semigroup actions.

We prove effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in $\operatorname {SO}(n,1)^{\circ } / \Gamma $ when $\Gamma $ is geometrically finite and the frame flow is exponentially mixing for the Bowen–Margulis–Sullivan measure. We also discuss settings in which such an exponential mixing result is known to hold. As part of the proof, we show that the Patterson–Sullivan measure satisfies some friendly like properties when $\Gamma $ is geometrically finite.

In this paper, we study the dynamics of the Newton maps for arbitrary polynomials. Let p be an arbitrary polynomial with at least three distinct roots, and f be its Newton map. It is shown that the boundary $\partial B$ of any immediate root basin B of f is locally connected. Moreover, $\partial B$ is a Jordan curve if and only if $\mathrm {deg}(f|_B)=2$ . This implies that the boundaries of all components of root basins, for the Newton maps for all polynomials, from the viewpoint of topology, are tame.

We establish exponential decay of correlations of all orders for locally G-accessible isometric extensions of transitive Anosov flows, under the assumption that the strong stable and strong unstable distributions of the base Anosov flow are  $C^1$ . This is accomplished by translating accessibility properties of the extension into local non-integrability estimates measured by infinitesimal transitivity groups used by Dolgopyat, from which we obtain contraction properties for a class of ‘twisted’ symbolic transfer operators.

Given a dynamical simplex K on a Cantor space X, we consider the set $G_K^*$ of all homeomorphisms of X which preserve all elements of K and have no non-trivial clopen invariant subset. Generalizing a theorem of Yingst, we prove that for a generic element g of $G_K^*$ the set of invariant measures of g is equal to K. We also investigate when there exists a generic conjugacy class in $G_K^*$ and prove that this happens exactly when K has only one element, which is the unique invariant measure associated to some odometer; and that in that case the conjugacy class of this odometer is generic in $G_K^*$ .

Let $u_{X}^{t}$ be a unipotent flow on $X=\mathrm {SO}(n,1)/\Gamma $, $u_{Y}^{t}$ be a unipotent flow on $Y=G/\Gamma ^{\prime }$. Let $\tilde {u}_{X}^{t}$, $\tilde {u}_{Y}^{t}$ be time changes of $u_{X}^{t}$, $u_{Y}^{t}$, respectively. We show the disjointness (in the sense of Furstenberg) between $u_{X}^{t}$ and $\tilde {u}_{Y}^{t}$ (or $\tilde {u}_{X}^{t}$ and $u_{Y}^{t}$) in certain situations. Our method refines the works of Ratner’s shearing argument. The method also extends a recent work of Dong, Kanigowski, and Wei [Rigidity of joinings for some measure preserving systems. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. 42 (2022), 665–690].

The f-invariant is an isomorphism invariant of free-group measure-preserving actions introduced by Lewis Bowen, who first used it to show that two finite-entropy Bernoulli shifts over a finitely generated free group can be isomorphic only if their base measures have the same Shannon entropy. Bowen also showed that the f-invariant is a variant of sofic entropy; in particular, it is the exponential growth rate of the expected number of good models over a uniform random homomorphism. In this paper we present an analogous formula for the relative f-invariant and use it to prove a formula for the exponential growth rate of the expected number of good models over a random sofic approximation which is a type of stochastic block model.

We show that every isometric action on a Cantor set is conjugate to an inverse limit of actions on finite sets; and that every faithful isometric action by a finitely generated amenable group is residually finite.

In this paper, we show that each element in the convex hull of the rotation set of a compact invariant chain transitive set is realized by a Birkhoff solution, which is an improvement of the fundamental lemma of T. Zhou and W.-X. Qin [Pseudo solutions, rotation sets, and shadowing rotations for monotone recurrence relations. Math. Z. 297 (2021), 1673–1692] in the study of rotation sets for monotone recurrence relations. We then investigate the properties of rotation sets assuming the system has zero topological entropy. The rotation set for a Birkhoff recurrence class is a singleton and the forward and backward rotation numbers are identical for each solution in the same Birkhoff recurrence class. We also show the continuity of rotation numbers on the set of non-wandering points. If the rotation set is upper-stable, then we show that each boundary point is a rational number, and we also obtain a result of bounded deviation.

We construct an invariant measure for a piecewise analytic interval map whose Lyapunov exponent is not defined. Moreover, for a set of full measure, the pointwise Lyapunov exponent is not defined. This map has a Lorenz-like singularity and non-flat critical points.

For a subshift $(X, \sigma _{X})$ and a subadditive sequence ${\mathcal F}=\{\log f_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ on X, we study equivalent conditions for the existence of $h\in C(X)$ such that $\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }(1/{n})\int \log f_{n}\, d\kern-1pt\mu =\int h \,d\kern-1pt\mu $ for every invariant measure $\mu $ on X. For this purpose, we first we study necessary and sufficient conditions for ${\mathcal F}$ to be an asymptotically additive sequence in terms of certain properties for periodic points. For a factor map $\pi : X\rightarrow Y$ , where $(X, \sigma _{X})$ is an irreducible shift of finite type and $(Y, \sigma _{Y})$ is a subshift, applying our results and the results obtained by Cuneo [Additive, almost additive and asymptotically additive potential sequences are equivalent. Comm. Math. Phys. 37 (3) (2020), 2579–2595] on asymptotically additive sequences, we study the existence of h with regard to a subadditive sequence associated to a relative pressure function. This leads to a characterization of the existence of a certain type of continuous compensation function for a factor map between subshifts. As an application, we study the projection $\pi \mu $ of an invariant weak Gibbs measure $\mu $ for a continuous function on an irreducible shift of finite type.

The pentagram map, introduced by Schwartz [The pentagram map. Exp. Math. 1(1) (1992), 71–81], is a dynamical system on the moduli space of polygons in the projective plane. Its real and complex dynamics have been explored in detail. We study the pentagram map over an arbitrary algebraically closed field of characteristic not equal to 2. We prove that the pentagram map on twisted polygons is a discrete integrable system, in the sense of algebraic complete integrability: the pentagram map is birational to a self-map of a family of abelian varieties. This generalizes Soloviev’s proof of complex integrability [F. Soloviev. Integrability of the pentagram map. Duke Math. J. 162(15) (2013), 2815–2853]. In the course of the proof, we construct the moduli space of twisted n-gons, derive formulas for the pentagram map, and calculate the Lax representation by characteristic-independent methods.

We construct a geometrico-symbolic version of the natural extension of the random $\beta $-transformation introduced by Dajani and Kraaikamp [Random $\beta $-expansions. Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys. 23(2) (2003) 461–479]. This construction provides a new proof of the existence of a unique absolutely continuous invariant probability measure for the random $\beta $-transformation, and an expression for its density. We then prove that this natural extension is a Bernoulli automorphism, generalizing to the random case the result of Smorodinsky [$\beta $-automorphisms are Bernoulli shifts. Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hungar. 24 (1973), 273–278] about the greedy transformation.