{ "id": "1306.0821", "version": "v2", "published": "2013-06-04T14:53:18.000Z", "updated": "2014-12-06T01:06:50.000Z", "title": "Poincaré-Birkhoff theorems in random dynamics", "authors": [ "Álvaro Pelayo", "Fraydoun Rezakhanlou" ], "comment": "35 pages, 5 figures. Presentation improved and added a new appendix explaining the relation between the classical theory and the random theory proposed in this paper", "categories": [ "math.DS", "math.PR", "math.SG" ], "abstract": "We propose a generalization of the Poincar\\'e-Birkhoff Theorem on area-preserving twist maps to area-preserving twist maps that are random with respect to an ergodic probability measure. The classical theory is a particular instance of the random theory we propose.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-06-04T14:53:18.000Z", "abstract": "The Poincar\\'e-Birkhoff Theorem states that an area-preserving periodic twist map R x [-1,1] -> R x [-1,1] has two geometrically distinct fixed points. We generalize it to area-preserving twist maps F : (R x [-1,1]) x \\Omega -> R x [-1,1] that are random with respect to a \\tau-invariant ergodic probability measure P on a separable metric space \\Omega, where \\tau is a continuous R-action on \\Omega. We will prove, in particular, that the probability that the area-preserving twist F(-,-,;\\omega), \\omega \\in \\Omega, has fixed points, is one. The proofs are based on the notion of \"random generating function\", and we use a calculus suited for their study.", "comment": "28 pages", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-12-06T01:06:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "random dynamics", "poincaré-birkhoff theorems", "poincare-birkhoff theorem states", "ergodic probability measure", "area-preserving periodic twist map" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 35, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1306.0821P" } } }