Hierarchical structures in Sturmian dynamical systems

Abelian returns in Sturmian words

Return words constitute a powerful tool for studying symbolic dynamical systems. They may be regarded as a discrete analogue of the first return map in dynamical systems. In this paper we investigate two abelian variants of the notion of return word, each of them gives rise to a new characterization of Sturmian words. We prove that a recurrent infinite word is Sturmian if and only if each of it...

Sturmian Words: Dynamical Systems and Derivated Words

Dynamical distance as a semi-metric on nuclear conguration space

In this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamical distance on a nuclear conguration space. We partition the nuclear conguration space into disjoint classes. This classification coincides with the classical partitioning of molecular systems via the concept of conjugacy of dynamical systems. It gives a quantitative criterion to distinguish dierent molecular structures.

More on the dynamics of the symbolic square root map

In our earlier paper [A square root map on Sturmian words, Electron. J. Combin. 24.1 (2017)], we introduced a symbolic square root map. Every optimal squareful infinite word s contains exactly six minimal squares and can be written as a product of these squares: s = X2 1X 2 2 · · · . The square root √ s of s is the infinite word X1X2 · · · obtained by deleting half of each square. We proved tha...

Determination of Stability Domains for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using the Weighted Residuals Method

Finding a suitable estimation of stability domain around stable equilibrium points is an important issue in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems. This paper intends to apply a set of analytical-numerical methods to estimate the region of attraction for autonomous nonlinear systems. In mechanical and structural engineering, autonomous systems could be found in large deformation problems or c...