Brest, from June 6th to June 9th

Organization board: Yves Coudène, François Maucourant, Françoise Pène, Barbara Schapira, Samuel Tapie, Annick Nicolle

Scientific board: Jon Aaronson, Jean-Pierre Conze, Gilles Courtois, Domokos Szasz

This conference will focus on dynamical systems which naturally preserve a measure with infinite mass. These systems appear in a geometric or probabilistic context, or may come from natural sciences. When the invariant measure has infinite mass, recurrence is no longer automatic, usual mixing properties disappear and new asymptotical properties (such as rationnal ergodicity) may occur. Such systems may develop various and subtil behaviours, which could not exists in finite measure dynamics.

This conference will gather international experts on this topic, and will allow young researcher to have an easy access to the large recent developpment on such questions.

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TALKS

Jon Aaronson (Tel Aviv Univ.),

Sara Brofferio (Univ. Paris Sud),

Jon Chaika (Univ. Utah),

Françoise Dal'bo (Univ. Rennes 1),

Dmitry Dolgopyat (Univ. Maryland),

Rhiannon Dougall (Univ. Warwick),

Olivier Glorieux (Luxembourg),

Sebastien Gouëzel (Univ. Nantes),

Alba Malaga Sabogal (Univ. Paris 8),

Emmanuel Roy (Univ. Paris 13),

Manuel Stadlbauer (Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro),

Dalia Terhesiu (Univ. Vienna),

Damien Thomine (Univ. Paris Sud),

Michael Bromberg (Univ. Bristol),

Roland Zweimüller (Univ. Vienna).

Titles and abstracts

Jon Aaronson (Tel Aviv Univ.) Rational ergodicity properties and distributional limits of infinite ergodic transformations.

In infinite ergodic theory, various weak and distributional limits replace the absolutely normalized pointwise ergodic theorem. We’ll review the subject and then see that every random variable on the positive reals occurs as the distributional limit of some infinite ergodic transformation. As a corollary, we obtain a complete classification of the possible ”A-rational ergodicity properties” for an infinite ergodic transformation.

The main construction follows by ”inversion” from a cutting and stacking construction showing that every random variable on the positive reals occurs as the distributional limit of the partial sums some positive, ergodic stationary process normalized by a 1-regularly varying normalizing sequence (indeed, here the process can be chosen over any EPPT).

Joint work with Benjamin Weiss. See arXiv:1604.03218

Sara Brofferio (Univ. Paris Sud), On unbounded invariant measures of stochastic dynamical systems

We consider stochastic dynamical systems Xn = Yn(Xn−1), where Yn are i.i.d. random continuous transformations of R. We assume that Yn(x) behave asymptotically like Anx, for some random positive number An. The main example is the stochastic affine recursion Xn = AnXn−1+Bn, but this class includes other interesting processes such as reflecting random walks or branching process. Our aim is to describe invariant Radon measures of the process {Xn} in the critical case, when ElogA = 0. Under optimal assumptions, we prove that those measures behave at infinity like dx/x. In the proof we strongly use some properties of random walks on the affine group. The talk will be based on a joint paper with Dariusz Buraczewski.

Michael Bromberg Temporal distributional limit theorem for cocycles over rotations

For a measure preserving system (X,B,μ,T ) and a real valued function f on X, temporal random variables along an orbit of a fixed point x in X are obtained by considering the Birkhoff sums Sn(f,x), n = 1,...,N and choosing n randomly uniformly from 1, ..., N. These r.v’s, measure the fraction of time that Birkhoff sums spend in various sets. If, under proper normalization, as N tends to infinity, these variables converge to a non-atomic distribution, we say that f satisfies a temporal limit theorem along the orbit of x (when the limit is Gaussian, we refer to this as temporal CLT). The aim of the talk is to introduce the relevant concepts and sketch a proof of a temporal CLT for piecewise constant cocycles with a single breakpoint, over an irrational rotation with a badly approximable rotation number. This result generalises earlier results by J.Beck and by D.Dolgopyat and O.Sarig. This is joint work with C.Ulcigrai.

Jon Chaika (Univ. Utah), Ergodicity of typical skew products over some interval exchange transformations

Let T be a linear recurrent interval exchange transformation. This is ameasure zero, but full Hausdorff dimension set of interval exchange transformations that are analogous to badly approximable rotations. We show that an R valued skew product over such an IET by an integral 0 function that is a linear combination of characteristic functions of intervals is typically ergodic. Relevant terms will be defined. This is joint work with Donald Robertson.

Françoise Dal’bo (Univ. Rennes 1), An example of a nonuniform lattice with infinite Bowen-Margulis measure

Joint work with M.Peign´e, J-C Picaud,A.Sambusetti. I will explain how to construct a noncompact negatively curved Riemannian surface with finite volume admitting an infinite Bowen-Margulis measure.

Dmitry Dolgopyat (Univ. Maryland) On Local Limit Theorems for hyperbolic flows

I describe an approach to proving local limit theorems and related for flows based on (multidimensional) local limit theorem for associated Poincare map. Both finite and infinite measure case will be discussed. Based on a joint work with Peter Nandori.

Rhiannon Dougall (Univ. Warwick) Growth of closed geodesics for infinite covers

We are interested in the dynamics of the geodesic flow for infinite volume manifolds M which arise as a regular cover of a fixed compact (or convex cocompact) negatively curved manifold M0. Writing hM for the exponential growth rate of closed geodesics in M, we have that hM ≤ h0, where h0 is the topological entropy of the geodesic flow for M0. We answer the question of when there is a uniform gap hM < h0 in M in terms of the permutation representations given by the covering M of M0. The proof uses the symbolic dynamics for the flow, and so we formulate the analogous statements for countable state shifts obtained as group extensions of a finite state shift.

Olivier Glorieux (IMPA) Hausdorff dimension and critical exponent of Quasi-Fuchsian Anti-de Sitter manifolds

The aim of my talk will be to explain how classical invariants and theorems for groups acting on the hyperbolic space, can be extended to the Anti-de Sitter (AdS) setting. We will recall the notion of critical exponent and Hausdorff dimension for discrete action on the hyperbolic space and explain how we can define similar notions for a certain type of groups acting on AdS manifolds. We will finally explain how to get a rigid bound for these invariants in dimension 3 which is a result equivalent a famous result obtained by R. Bowen in ’79 . This is a joint work with D. Monclair.

Sébastien Gouëzel Quantitative Pesin theory for subshifts of finite type

In non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamics, Pesin sets are measurable sets where the dynamics is very well understood. However, their definition makes these sets hard to control in a quantitative way, even when the underlying dynamics is hyperbolic. We will explain why such a control is useful, and what kind of bounds we can obtain. Joint work with L. Stoyanov.

Emmanuel Roy (Univ. Paris 13) Ergodic splittings of Poisson processes

If N denotes a Poisson process, a splitting of N is formed by two point processes N1 and N2 such that N = N1 +N2. If N1 and N2 are independent Poisson processes then the splitting is said to be Poisson and such a splitting is always available (We allow the possibility to enlarge the ambient probability space). In general, a splitting is not Poisson but the situation changes if we require that the distributions of the point processes are invariant by a common underlying map that acts at the level of each point of the processes. We will prove that if this map has infinite ergodic index, then a splitting is necessarily Poisson if the environment is ergodic.

This is a work in progress, with Elise Janvresse and Thierry de la Rue.

Dalia Terhesiu, Exploiting semistable laws for i.id. random variables

We recall that semistable laws is a class of infinitely divisible laws, which complements the more well known stable laws. I will recall some main, previously established, results on necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of semistable laws for i.id. random variables. I will report on work in progress with Peter Kevei which aims toward a complete understanding of a limit law for null recurrent renewal chains, assuming that the involved return function is in the domain of a semistable law (as such, no strict regular variation is required). Some analogies with the Darling Kac law will be discussed. If time remains, I will present some results of work in progress with Douglas Coates on semistable laws for interval intermittent maps.

Rennes, from June 19th to June 23rd

Organization board: Bachir Bekka, Nizar Demni

Scientific board: Bachir Bekka, Emmanuel Breuillard, Nizar Demni, Alex Lubotzky

The conference deals with themes around random walks on algebraic structures. Dynamical sytems on groups, homogeneous spaces, and related structures (graphs, quantum groups , groupoids,...) are rich objects, involving various fields of mathematics (probability, group theory, topology, number theory, operator algebras, Banach space geometry, etc). They are also useful as modelling tools for other sciences (physics, computer science, economics, etc); for instance, expander graphs, which are of interest in theoretical computer science, are graphs for which the associated random walk has special spectral properties and their explicit construction involves sophisticated tools such as Kazhdan's property (T) or Selberg's inequality. The conference aims to give a flavor of the various aspects of the subject by bringing together some experts with major contributions to the field. This conference will also be the opportunity to celebrate the 80th birthday of Yves Guivarc'h, who played a major part in the development of probability on algebraic and geometric structures, a subject with an ever growing interest for the last 30 years.

Nantes, from July 3rd to July 7th

Organization board: Sebastien Gouëzel, Laurent Guillopé, Samuel Tapie

Scientific board: Nalini Anantharaman, Viviane Baladi, Colin Guillarmou, Masato Tsujii

Hyperbolic flows are dynamical systems with strong chaotic properties, whose study has been started a long time ago, a crucial example being the geodesic flow on negatively curved manifolds. Whereas the qualitative properties of such flows are well understood, their fine quantitative properties (rate of mixing, spectrum...) require more sophisticated tools. They have been studied both from a dynamical point of view (Dolgopyat's techniques) and more analytically: semi-classical methods, initially introduced to study PDEs, have proven very valuable in this context.

The purpose of this summer school is to make these different techniques accessible to PhD students and young researchers, as well as to give an opportunity for specialists in dynamical systems to learn tools from semi-classical analysis, and conversely. Therefore, the core of this summer school will consist in three introductive mini-courses, completed by a few research talks and question sessions.