- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 11:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 269
- Speaker
- Leonid Bunimovich – Georgia Institute of Technology – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bunimovh
- Organizer
- Michael Westdickenberg
Consider any dynamical system with the phase space (set of all states)
M. One gets an open dynamical system if M has a subset H (hole) such
that any orbit escapes ("disappears") after hitting H. The question in
the title naturally appears in dealing with some experiments in
physics, in some problems in bioinformatics, in coding theory, etc.
However this question was essentially ignored in the dynamical systems
theory. It occurred that it has a simple and counter intuitive answer.
It also brings about a new characterization of periodic orbits in
chaotic dynamical systems.
Besides, a duality with Dynamical Networks allows to introduce
dynamical characterization of the nodes (or edges) of Networks, which
complements such static characterizations as centrality, betweenness,
etc. Surprisingly this approach allows to obtain new results about such
classical objects as Markov chains and introduce a hierarchy in the set
of their states in regard of their ability to absorb or transmit an
"information".
Most of the results come from a finding that one can make finite
(rather than traditional large) time predictions on behavior of
dynamical systems even if they do not contain any small parameter.
It looks plausible that a variety of problems in dynamical systems, probability,
coding, imaging ... could be attacked now.
No preliminary knowledge is required. The talk will be accessible to students.