We present an analysis of one-dimensional models of dynamical systems that possess “coherent structures”; global structures that disperse more slowly than local trajectory separation. We study cocycles generated by expanding interval maps and the rates of decay for functions of bounded variation under the action of the associated Perron–Frobenius cocycles. We prove that when the generators are ...

The matrix calculus is widely applied in various branches of mathematics and control system engineering. In this paper properties of real matrices with nonnegative elements are studied. The classical Collatz theorem is unique and immediately applicable to estimating the spectral radius of nonnegative irreducible matrices. The coherence property is identified. Then the Perron–Frobenius theorem a...

The matrix calculus is widely applied in various branches of mathematics and control system engineering. In this paper properties of real matrices with nonnegative elements are studied. The classical Collatz theorem is unique and immediately applicable to estimating the spectral radius of nonnegative irreducible matrices. The coherence property is identified. Then the Perron–Frobenius theorem a...

Exotic semirings such as the “(max;+) semiring” (R[f 1g;max;+), or the “tropical semiring” (N[f+1g;min;+), have been invented and reinvented many times since the late fifties, in relation with various fields: performance evaluation of manufacturing systems and discrete event system theory; graph theory (path algebra) and Markov decision processes, Hamilton-Jacobi theory; asymptotic analysis (lo...