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A Phase Transition for Circle Maps and Cherry Flows

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We study C 2 weakly order preserving circle maps with a flat interval. The main result of the paper is about a sharp transition from degenerate geometry to bounded geometry depending on the degree of the singularities at the boundary of the flat interval. We prove that the non-wandering set has zero Hausdorff dimension in the case of degenerate geometry and it has Hausdorff dimension strictly greater than zero in the case of bounded geometry. Our results about circle maps allow to establish a sharp phase transition in the dynamics of Cherry flows.

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    Liviana Palmisano

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Palmisano, L. A Phase Transition for Circle Maps and Cherry Flows. Commun. Math. Phys. 321, 135–155 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-013-1685-2

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