Ulam method and fractal Weyl law for Perron--Frobenius operators

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spectral properties of Perron-Frobenius operators in chaotic dynamical systems using the Ulam method, revealing fractal Weyl laws that relate eigenvalue distributions to fractal dimensions of invariant sets.

Contribution

It demonstrates the applicability of the fractal Weyl law to Perron-Frobenius operators for both absorbing and dissipative maps, linking spectral properties to fractal dimensions.

Findings

Spectral spectrum follows fractal Weyl law with exponent d-1 for absorbing maps.

Spectral spectrum follows fractal Weyl law with exponent d/2 for dissipative maps.

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors exhibit properties consistent with fractal Weyl law.

Abstract

We use the Ulam method to study spectral properties of the Perron-Frobenius operators of dynamical maps in a chaotic regime. For maps with absorption we show that the spectrum is characterized by the fractal Weyl law recently established for nonunitary operators describing poles of quantum chaotic scattering with the Weyl exponent $\nu=d-1$, where $d$ is the fractal dimension of corresponding strange set of trajectories nonescaping in future times. In contrast, for dissipative maps we find the Weyl exponent $\nu=d/2$ where $d$ is the fractal dimension of strange attractor. The Weyl exponent can be also expressed via the relation $\nu=d_0/2$ where $d_0$ is the fractal dimension of the invariant sets. We also discuss the properties of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of such operators characterized by the fractal Weyl law.