dynamical-systems
For a class of Rd\mathbb{R}^d-ations and Zd\mathbb{Z}^d-actions on the nn-dimensional torus Tn\mathbb{T}^n, we characterize their unique ergodicity and establish a theorem of Weyl type. This result allows us to establish an isomorphism between the Banach algebra of quasi-periodic functions with spectrum in a given Z\mathbb{Z}-module and the Banach algebra of periodic functions on a torus. This, in return, allows us to give a very simple proof of Hausdorff-Young inequalities for Besicovitch almost periodic functions. The regularity of the parent function of a quasi-periodic function is also studied.
As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly operate as autonomous decision-makers in interactive and multi-agent systems and human societies, understanding their strategic behaviour has profound implications for safety, coordination, and the design of AI-driven social and economic infrastructures. Assessing such behaviour requires methods that capture not only what LLMs output, but the underlying intentions that guide their decisions. In this work, we extend the FAIRGAME framework to systematically evaluate LLM behaviour in repeated social dilemmas through two complementary advances: a payoff-scaled Prisoners Dilemma isolating sensitivity to incentive magnitude, and an integrated multi-agent Public Goods Game with dynamic payoffs and multi-agent histories. These environments reveal consistent behavioural signatures across models and languages, including incentive-sensitive cooperation, cross-linguistic divergence and end-game alignment toward defection. To interpret these patterns, we train traditional supervised classification models on canonical repeated-game strategies and apply them to FAIRGAME trajectories, showing that LLMs exhibit systematic, model- and language-dependent behavioural intentions, with linguistic framing at times exerting effects as strong as architectural differences. Together, these findings provide a unified methodological foundation for auditing LLMs as strategic agents and reveal systematic cooperation biases with direct implications for AI governance, collective decision-making, and the design of safe multi-agent systems.
The Heyland circle diagram is a classical graphical method for representing the steady--state behavior of induction machines using no--load and blocked--rotor test data. Despite its long pedagogical history, the traditional geometric construction has not been formalized within a closed analytic framework. This note develops a complete Euclidean reconstruction of the diagram using only the two measured phasors and elementary geometric operations, yielding a unique circle, a torque chord, a slip scale, and a maximum--torque point. We prove that this constructed circle coincides precisely with the analytic steady--state current locus obtained from the per--phase equivalent circuit. A Möbius transformation interpretation reveals the complex--analytic origin of the diagram's circularity and offers a compact explanation of its geometric structure.
Let ff be a holomorphic endomorphism of CPk\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^k of algebraic degree at least 22 and let XCPkX \subseteq \mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^k be an uniformly expanding set. In this paper, we study multifractal analysis of equilibrium states of Hölder continuous functions for the non-conformal dynamical system f:XXf : X \to X. In lieu of Hausdorff dimensions, we use a new dimension theory (i.e., the volume dimension theory) to define various local dimension multifractal spectra and show that each of these spectra form a Legendre transform pair with the temperature function as in the conformal case. As an application of our main theorems, we also prove a conditional variational principle for such dimension multifractal spectra.
We develop a continuous mathematical model of population dynamics that describes the sequential emergence of new genotypes under limited resources. The framework models genotype density as a nonlinear flow in mutation space, combining transport driven by a time-dependent mutation rate with logistic growth and nonlocal competition. For the advection-reaction regime without reverse mutations, we derive analytical solutions using the method of characteristics and obtain explicit expressions for time-varying carrying capacities and mutation velocities. We analyze how decaying and accelerating mutation rates shape the saturation and propagation of population fronts through level-set geometry. When reverse mutations are included, the system becomes a quasilinear parabolic equation with diffusion in genotype space; numerical experiments show that backward mutation flows stabilize the dynamics and smooth the evolving fronts. The proposed model generalizes classical quasispecies and Crow-Kimura formulations by incorporating logistic regulation, variable mutation rates, and reversible transitions, offering a unified approach to evolutionary processes relevant to virology, bacterial adaptation, and tumor progression.
Turbulent flows posses broadband, power-law spectra in which multiscale interactions couple high-wavenumber fluctuations to large-scale dynamics. Although diffusion-based generative models offer a principled probabilistic forecasting framework, we show that standard DDPMs induce a fundamental \emph{spectral collapse}: a Fourier-space analysis of the forward SDE reveals a closed-form, mode-wise signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that decays monotonically in wavenumber, k|k| for spectra S(k) ⁣ ⁣kλS(k)\!\propto\!|k|^{-\lambda}, rendering high-wavenumber modes indistinguishable from noise and producing an intrinsic spectral bias. We reinterpret the noise schedule as a spectral regularizer and introduce power-law schedules β(τ) ⁣ ⁣τγ\beta(\tau)\!\propto\!\tau^\gamma that preserve fine-scale structure deeper into diffusion time, along with \emph{Lazy Diffusion}, a one-step distillation method that leverages the learned score geometry to bypass long reverse-time trajectories and prevent high-kk degradation. Applied to high-Reynolds-number 2D Kolmogorov turbulence and 1/121/12^\circ Gulf of Mexico ocean reanalysis, these methods resolve spectral collapse, stabilize long-horizon autoregression, and restore physically realistic inertial-range scaling. Together, they show that naïve Gaussian scheduling is structurally incompatible with power-law physics and that physics-aware diffusion processes can yield accurate, efficient, and fully probabilistic surrogates for multiscale dynamical systems.
Simulating complex diffusion-reaction systems is often prohibitively expensive due to the high dimensionality and stiffness of the underlying ODEs, where state variables may span tens of orders of magnitude. Deep learning has recently emerged as a powerful tool in scientific computing, achieving remarkable progress in modeling and sampling stiff systems. However, data scaling techniques remain largely underexplored, despite their crucial role in addressing the frequency bias of deep neural networks when handling multi-magnitude or high-frequency data. In this work, we propose the Generalized Box-Cox Transformation (GBCT), a novel nonlinear scaling method designed to mitigate multiscale challenges by rescaling inherent multi-magnitude components toward a more consistent order of magnitude. We integrate GBCT into our previous data-driven framework and evaluate its performance against the original baseline surrogate model across six representative scenarios: a 21-species chemical reaction kinetics, a 13-isotope nuclear reaction model, the well-known Robertson problem coupled with diffusion, and practically relevant simulations of two-dimensional turbulent reaction-diffusion systems as well as one- and two-dimensional nuclear reactive flows. Numerical experiments demonstrate that GBCT reduces prediction errors by up to two orders of magnitude compared with the baseline model - particularly in the long-term evolution of dynamical systems - and achieves comparable performance with only about one-sixth of the training epochs. Frequency analysis further reveals that GBCT rescales high-frequency components of the objective function toward lower frequencies to align with the neural network's natural low frequency bias, thereby boosting training and generalization. The source code to reproduce the results in this paper is available at this https URL.
In this paper, we consider the dynamics of induced map 2f2^f of a given pointwise periodic homeomorphism f:XXf:X\to X of a compact metric space XX. First, we show that the topological entropy of 2f2^f is zero, i.e. htop(2f)=0h_{top}(2^f)=0 and that the set of almost periodic points coincides with the set of uniformly recurrent points, i.e. AP(2f)=UR(2f)AP(2^f)=UR(2^f). Furthermore, we prove that inside any infinite ω\omega-limit set ω2f(A)\omega_{2^f}(A) there is a unique minimal set and this minimal set is an adding machine. As a consequence, (2X,2f)(2^X,2^f) has no Devaney chaotic subsystems. In contrast to these rigidity properties, we obtain some results with chaotic flavor. In fact, we prove the following dichotomy, the hyperspace system (2X,2f)(2^X,2^f) is either equicontinuous or choatic with respect to Li-Yorke chaos and ω\omega-chaos. It is shown that the later case occurs if and only if R(2f)AP(2f)R(2^f)\setminus AP(2^f)\neq\emptyset. This enables us to provide simple examples of pointwise periodic homeomorphisms with chaotic induced systems.
For a semigroup SS and a right Z[S]\mathbb{Z}[S]-submodule JZ[S]nJ\leq \mathbb{Z}[S]^n, we study expansivity of the algebraic action of SS induced on the Pontryagin dual of Z[S]n/J\mathbb{Z}[S]^n/J. We completely determine the class of semigroups for which expansivity of this action is characterized by the triviality of JJ^\perp, in terms of the existence of a finite subset KSK\subseteq S such that S=KSS=KS. This condition is satisfied in particular by every monoid, and more generally by every semigroup with a left unital convolution Banach algebra, in which case we are able to extend the characterization of expansivity in terms of an invertibility condition when JJ is finitely generated. We also exhibit examples of non-unital semigroups satisfying the hypotheses of our results.
We develop a general theory of semantic dynamics for large language models by formalizing them as Continuous State Machines (CSMs): smooth dynamical systems whose latent manifolds evolve under probabilistic transition operators. The associated transfer operator P:L2(M,μ)L2(M,μ)P: L^2(M,\mu) \to L^2(M,\mu) encodes the propagation of semantic mass. Under mild regularity assumptions (compactness, ergodicity, bounded Jacobian), PP is compact with discrete spectrum. Within this setting, we prove the Semantic Characterization Theorem (SCT): the leading eigenfunctions of PP induce finitely many spectral basins of invariant meaning, each definable in an o-minimal structure over R\mathbb{R}. Thus spectral lumpability and logical tameness coincide. This explains how discrete symbolic semantics can emerge from continuous computation: the continuous activation manifold collapses into a finite, logically interpretable ontology. We further extend the SCT to stochastic and adiabatic (time-inhomogeneous) settings, showing that slowly drifting kernels preserve compactness, spectral coherence, and basin structure.
This is the second article in a series that aims at classifying partial sections of flows, that is a general family of transverse surfaces. In this part, we classify partial cross-sections for all continuous flows, in the spirit of Schwartzman-Fried-Sullivan theory. We give a dynamical criterion for the existence of partial cross-sections, which is a direct consequence of part I of the series. Then we describe all partial cross-sections using a cohomological criterion, resembling Fried's criterion. We also characterize the cardinality of the set of partial cross-sections in a given cohomology class.
Researchers at MIT rigorously analyze the mean-field dynamics of Transformer attention, framing it as an interacting particle system that leads to eventual representation collapse but also exhibits long-lived metastable multi-cluster states. The work quantitatively explains the benefits of Pre-Layer Normalization in delaying collapse and identifies a phase transition in long-context attention with logarithmic scaling.
Coral colonies exhibit complex, self-similar branching architectures shaped by biochemical interactions and environmental constraints. To model their growth and calcification dynamics, we propose a novel p-adic reaction-diffusion framework defined over p-adic ultrametric spaces. The model incorporates biologically grounded reactions involving calcium and bicarbonate ions, whose interplay drives the precipitation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Nonlocal diffusion is governed by the Vladimirov operator over the p-adic integers, naturally capturing the hierarchical geometry of branching coral structures. Discretization over p-adic balls yields a high-dimensional nonlinear ODE system, which we solve numerically to examine how environmental and kinetic parameters, particularly CO2 concentration, influence morphogenetic outcomes. The resulting simulations reproduce structurally diverse and biologically plausible branching patterns. This approach bridges non-Archimedean analysis with morphogenesis modeling and provides a mathematically rigorous framework for investigating hierarchical structure formation in developmental biology.
We show that a class of quasiregular Lattès maps, called orthotopic Lattès maps, are cellular Markov maps. This provides examples of expanding Thurston-type maps that are also uniformly quasiregular, and whose visual metrics are quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Riemannian distance.
We show that C\mathcal{C}^{\infty} local diffeomorphisms of closed surfaces whose topological entropy is larger than the logarithm of their degree admit a finite number of ergodic measures of maximal entropy. To do this, we construct families of rectangles, with a nice geometry, displaying a Markov property. We then analyze the behavior of the iterates of unstable curves intersecting these rectangles, using Yomdin theory.
The deep learning revolution has spurred a rise in advances of using AI in sciences. Within physical sciences the main focus has been on discovery of dynamical systems from observational data. Yet the reliability of learned surrogates and symbolic models is often undermined by the fundamental problem of non-uniqueness. The resulting models may fit the available data perfectly, but lack genuine predictive power. This raises the question: under what conditions can the systems governing equations be uniquely identified from a finite set of observations? We show, counter-intuitively, that chaos, typically associated with unpredictability, is crucial for ensuring a system is discoverable in the space of continuous or analytic functions. The prevalence of chaotic systems in benchmark datasets may have inadvertently obscured this fundamental limitation. More concretely, we show that systems chaotic on their entire domain are discoverable from a single trajectory within the space of continuous functions, and systems chaotic on a strange attractor are analytically discoverable under a geometric condition on the attractor. As a consequence, we demonstrate for the first time that the classical Lorenz system is analytically discoverable. Moreover, we establish that analytic discoverability is impossible in the presence of first integrals, common in real-world systems. These findings help explain the success of data-driven methods in inherently chaotic domains like weather forecasting, while revealing a significant challenge for engineering applications like digital twins, where stable, predictable behavior is desired. For these non-chaotic systems, we find that while trajectory data alone is insufficient, certain prior physical knowledge can help ensure discoverability. These findings warrant a critical re-evaluation of the fundamental assumptions underpinning purely data-driven discovery.
Generative AI can be framed as the problem of learning a model that maps simple reference measures into complex data distributions, and it has recently found a strong connection to the classical theory of the Schrödinger bridge problems (SBPs) due partly to their common nature of interpolating between prescribed marginals via entropy-regularized stochastic dynamics. However, the classical SBP enforces hard terminal constraints, which often leads to instability in practical implementations, especially in high-dimensional or data-scarce regimes. To address this challenge, we follow the idea of the so-called soft-constrained Schrödinger bridge problem (SCSBP), in which the terminal constraint is replaced by a general penalty function. This relaxation leads to a more flexible stochastic control formulation of McKean-Vlasov type. We establish the existence of optimal solutions for all penalty levels and prove that, as the penalty grows, both the controls and value functions converge to those of the classical SBP at a linear rate. Our analysis builds on Doob's h-transform representations, the stability results of Schrödinger potentials, Gamma-convergence, and a novel fixed-point argument that couples an optimization problem over the space of measures with an auxiliary entropic optimal transport problem. These results not only provide the first quantitative convergence guarantees for soft-constrained bridges but also shed light on how penalty regularization enables robust generative modeling, fine-tuning, and transfer learning.
Ample empirical evidence in deep neural network training suggests that a variety of optimizers tend to find nearly global optima. In this article, we adopt the reversed perspective that convergence to an arbitrary point is assumed rather than proven, focusing on the consequences of this assumption. From this viewpoint, in line with recent advances on the edge-of-stability phenomenon, we argue that different optimizers effectively act as eigenvalue filters determined by their hyperparameters. Specifically, the standard gradient descent method inherently avoids the sharpest minima, whereas Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) algorithms go even further by actively favoring wider basins. Inspired by these insights, we propose two novel algorithms that exhibit enhanced eigenvalue filtering, effectively promoting wider minima. Our theoretical analysis leverages a generalized Hadamard--Perron stable manifold theorem and applies to general semialgebraic C2C^2 functions, without requiring additional non-degeneracy conditions or global Lipschitz bound assumptions. We support our conclusions with numerical experiments on feed-forward neural networks.
For an étale groupoid, we define a pairing between the Crainic-Moerdijk groupoid homology and the simplex of invariant Borel probability measures on the base space. The main novelty here is that the groupoid need not have totally disconnected base space, and thus the pairing can give more refined information than the measures of clopen subsets of the base space. Our principal motivation is CC^*-algebra theory. The Elliott invariant of a CC^*-algebra is defined in terms of KK-theory and traces; it is fundamental in the long-running program to classify simple CC^*-algebras (satisfying additional necessary conditions). We use our pairing to define a groupoid Elliott invariant, and show that for many interesting groupoids it agrees with the CC^*-algebraic Elliott invariant of the groupoid CC^*-algebra: this includes irrational rotation algebras and the CC^*-algebras arising from orbit breaking constructions studied by the first listed author, Putnam, and Strung. These results can be thought of as establishing a refinement of Matui's HK conjecture for the relevant groupoids.
Replicator dynamics have widely been used in evolutionary game theory to model how strategy frequencies evolve over time in large populations. The so-called payoff matrix encodes the pairwise fitness that each strategy obtains when interacting with every other strategy, and it solely determines the replicator dynamics. If the payoff matrix is unknown, we show in this paper that it cannot be inferred from observed strategy frequencies alone -- distinct payoff matrices can induce the same replicator dynamics. We thus look for a canonical representative of the payoff matrix in the equivalence class. The main result of the paper is to show that for every polynomial replicator dynamics (i.e., the vector field is a polynomial), there always exists a skew-symmetric, polynomial payoff matrix that can induce the given dynamics.
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