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}
}