Degree of recurrence of generic diffeomorphisms

Pierre-Antoine Guihéneuf

Published 2015-10-02Version 1

We study the spatial discretizations of dynamical systems: can we recover some dynamical features of a system from numerical simulations? Here, we tackle this issue for the simplest algorithm possible: we compute long segments of orbits with a fixed number of digits. We show that the dynamics of the discretizations of a $C^1$ generic conservative diffeomorphism of the torus is very different from that observed in the $C^0$ regularity. The proof of our results involves in particular a local-global formula for discretizations, as well as a study of the corresponding linear case, which uses ideas from the theory of quasicrystals.