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Note on the failure of the strong rotation property for smooth fields with infinite spectrum

Dynamical Systems 2026-07-14 v1

Abstract

The present note identifies the fundamental mechanism governing the extension of the contraction method. Although every periodic vector field defined by a finite trigonometric polynomial admits a bounded deviation from a linear drift, this property fails in general for smooth periodic vector fields. We show that the contraction argument underlying the original proof extends to any field satisfying a natural uniform summability condition, and that the counterexample violates this condition, thereby revealing the obstruction that prevents the method from extending beyond the finite-spectrum setting.

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@article{arxiv.2607.13102,
  title  = {Note on the failure of the strong rotation property for smooth fields with infinite spectrum},
  author = {Walid Oukil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13102},
  year   = {2026}
}