Dynamics, ergodic theory, and geometry : dedicated to Anatole Katok

Based on the subjects from the Clay Mathematics Institute/Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop titled 'Recent Progress in Dynamics' in September and October 2004, this volume contains surveys and research articles by leading experts in several areas of dynamical systems that have experienced substantial progress. One of the major surveys is on symplectic geometry, which is closely related to classical mechanics and an exciting addition to modern geometry. The survey on local rigidity of group actions gives a broad and up-to-date account of another flourishing subject. Other papers cover hyperbolic, parabolic, and symbolic dynamics as well as ergodic theory. Students and researchers in dynamical systems, geometry, and related areas will find this book fascinating. The book also includes a fifty-page commented problem list that takes the reader beyond the areas covered by the surveys, to inspire and guide further research.

Foreword

1 Quantitative symplectic geometryK. CIELIEBAK and HELMUT HOFER and J. LATSCHEV and F. SCHLENK

2 Local rigidity of group actions: past, present, futureDavid Fisher

3 Le lemme d'Ornstein-Weiss d'aprÃ¿sGromov Fabrice Krieger

4 Entropy of holomorphic and rational maps: a surveyShmuel Friedland

5 Causes of stretching of Birkhoff sums and mixing in flows on surfacesAndrey Kochergin

6 Solenoid functions for hyperbolic sets on surfacesAlberto A. Pinto and David A. Rand

7 Random walks derived from billiardsRenato Feres

8 An aperiodic tiling using a dynamical system and Beatty sequencesStanley Eigen and Jorge Navarro and Vidhu S. Prasad

9 A Halmos-von Neumann theorem for model sets, and almost automorphic dynamical systemsE. Arthur Robinson Jr

10 Problems in dynamical systems and related topicsBoris Hasselblatt

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