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2016 Affine hyperbolic toral automorphisms
Colin Thomson, Donna K. Molinek
Involve 9(4): 541-549 (2016). DOI: 10.2140/involve.2016.9.541

Abstract

A hyperbolic transformation of the torus is an example of a function that is Devaney chaotic; that is, it is topologically transitive and has dense periodic points. An irrational rotation of the torus, on the other hand, is not chaotic because it has no periodic points. We show that a hyperbolic transformation of the torus followed by a translation (an affine hyperbolic toral automorphism) has dense periodic points and maintains transitivity. As a consequence, affine toral automorphisms are chaotic, even when the translation is an irrational rotation.

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Colin Thomson. Donna K. Molinek. "Affine hyperbolic toral automorphisms." Involve 9 (4) 541 - 549, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2016.9.541

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Received: 30 January 2014; Accepted: 17 August 2015; Published: 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 22 November 2017

zbMATH: 1347.54056
MathSciNet: MR3530199
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/involve.2016.9.541

Subjects:
Primary: 54H20‎
Secondary: 37B40

Keywords: chaos , topological dynamics , toral automorphism

Rights: Copyright © 2016 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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