English

On the widths of the Arnol'd Tongues

Dynamical Systems 2009-07-28 v1

Abstract

Let F:RRF: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R be a real analytic increasing diffeomorphism with FIdF-{\rm Id} being 1 periodic. Consider the translated family of maps (Ft:RR)t\mathbbR(F_t :\mathbb R \to \mathbb R)_{t\in \mathbbR} defined as Ft(x)=F(x)+tF_t(x)=F(x)+t. Let Trans(Ft){\rm Trans}(F_t) be the translation number of FtF_t defined by: Trans(Ft):=limn+FtnIdn.{\rm Trans}(F_t) := \lim_{n\to +\infty}\frac{F_t^{\circ n}-{\rm Id}}{n}. Assume there is a Herman ring of modulus 2τ2\tau associated to FF and let pn/qnp_n/q_n be the nn-th convergent of Trans(F){\rm Trans}(F). Denoting θ\ell_{\theta} as the length of the interval {tRTrans(Ft)=θ}\{t\in \mathbb R | {\rm Trans}(F_t)=\theta\}, we prove that the sequence (pn/qn)(\ell_{p_n/q_n}) decreases exponentially fast with respect to qnq_n. More precisely lim supn1qnlogpn/qn2πτ.\limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{q_n} \log {\ell_{p_n/q_n}} \le -2\pi \tau .

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.4599,
  title  = {On the widths of the Arnol'd Tongues},
  author = {Kuntal Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4599},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures