A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of Z was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic Z-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics is readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank one action determine the ...

A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of Z was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic Z-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics is readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank one action determine the ...

The wavelet dimension function for arbitrary real dilations is defined and used to address several questions involving the existence of MRA wavelets and well-localized wavelets for irrational dilations. The theory of quasi-affine frames for rational dilations and the existence of non-MSF wavelets for certain irrational dilations play an important role in this development. Expansive dilations ad...

Granular Pile Anchor (GPA) considers one of the solution foundation techniques, designed to mitigate the lifting of the sole resulting from expansive soils. This study work is to investigate the uplift movement response of (GPA) in expansive soil. The laboratory tests have been performed on an experimental. The effects of several parameters, such as length (L) of (GPA) and diameter (D), the thi...

We discuss synchronous and asynchronous variants of fixed point iterations of the form xk+1 = xk + γ(k) ( F (xk, ξk)− xk ) , where F is a non-expansive mapping under a suitable norm, and {ξk} is a stochastic sequence. These are stochastic approximation iterations that can be analyzed using the ODE approach based either on Kushner and Clark’s Lemma for the synchronous case or Borkar’s Theorem fo...