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Rates for maps and flows in a deterministic multidimensional weak invariance principle

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Pith's one-line read Rates of convergence to N-dimensional Brownian motion are established for nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems in discrete and continuous time.

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arxiv 2406.06123 v3 submitted 2024-06-10 math.DS

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The paper aims to establish the first rates of convergence to an N-dimensional Brownian motion for N greater than or equal to 2, covering both discrete and continuous time dynamical systems. It also provides the first rates for continuous time in any dimension. These results apply to systems with nonuniformly hyperbolic or expanding structures such as Axiom A flows. A reader would care because such rates make the link between deterministic chaos and stochastic processes more precise and quantitative, allowing better understanding of long-term behavior in higher-dimensional chaotic systems.

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The multidimensional weak invariance principle equipped with explicit rates of convergence for maps and flows.

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A specific calculation for a two-dimensional Axiom A system where the observed convergence rate to Brownian motion violates the predicted bound would falsify the claim.

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Core claim

The central claim is that rates of convergence in the weak invariance principle to an N-dimensional Brownian motion exist for N≥2 in both discrete and continuous time for nonuniformly hyperbolic and expanding systems such as Axiom A flows, suspensions over a Young tower with exponential tails, and some classes of intermittent solenoids.

Load-bearing premise

The dynamical systems must admit a nonuniformly hyperbolic or expanding structure that permits the application of invariance principle techniques.

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  • Rates become available for multidimensional cases previously limited to one dimension.
  • Continuous-time systems gain rates in all dimensions for the first time.
  • The results cover standard classes like Axiom A flows and Young tower suspensions.

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  • These rates may enable more accurate error analysis in modeling diffusion via chaotic dynamics.
  • Further work could test the rates on concrete examples like the Lorenz flow.
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Summary. The manuscript claims to establish the first quantitative rates of convergence in the weak invariance principle to an N-dimensional Brownian motion for N≥2, covering both discrete-time maps and continuous-time flows. It additionally provides the first such rates for flows in any dimension. The results apply to nonuniformly hyperbolic and expanding systems, including Axiom A flows, suspensions over Young towers with exponential tails, and certain classes of intermittent solenoids.

Significance. If the technical estimates hold, the work fills a notable gap by supplying explicit rates in the multidimensional setting, where only qualitative invariance principles were previously available for N≥2. The extension to continuous time is a natural but nontrivial advance with potential implications for statistical properties of flows. The choice of standard model classes (Young towers, Axiom A) makes the results immediately applicable to many existing examples in the literature.

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  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the results apply to 'some classes of intermittent solenoids' without specifying the precise tail conditions or the dimension range; this should be clarified in the introduction or statement of main theorems to allow readers to assess applicability.
  2. Notation for the rates (e.g., dependence on the dimension N, the Hölder exponent, or the tail decay parameter) should be introduced uniformly in the main theorems and compared explicitly to the one-dimensional case to highlight the new contributions.
  3. Ensure that the statement of the multidimensional martingale approximation or the coupling argument (whichever is used) includes a clear reference to the scalar case it extends, so that the novelty in handling vector-valued observables is transparent.

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The provided abstract and summary contain no equations, parameter fits, self-citations, or derivation steps that reduce the claimed rates of convergence to inputs by construction. The central result is an extension of invariance principle techniques to vector-valued observables and flows under standard nonuniformly hyperbolic assumptions; this extension is presented as a technical advance without any self-referential definitions or renamings that would create circularity. No load-bearing steps are identifiable from the given text.

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We present the first rates of convergence to an $N$-dimensional Brownian motion when $N\ge2$ for discrete and continuous time dynamical systems. Additionally, we provide the first rates for continuous time in any dimension. Our results hold for nonuniformly hyperbolic and expanding systems, such as Axiom A flows, suspensions over a Young tower with exponential tails, and some classes of intermittent solenoids.

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    We present the first rates of convergence to an N-dimensional Brownian motion when N≥2 for discrete and continuous time dynamical systems... Our results hold for nonuniformly hyperbolic and expanding systems, such as Axiom A flows, suspensions over a Young tower with exponential tails...

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    Our proofs utilize results from general martingale theory [12,13,24]. To apply the latter to discrete time dynamical systems, we follow the same strategy of [3,26] and rely on an advanced adaptation [22] of the martingale-coboundary decomposition introduced by Gordin [17].

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