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Full-measure historic behavior and emergence in simplex dynamics

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We give a finite-dimensional boundary-residence mechanism for Takens-type historic behavior. For a class of continuous self-maps of a simplex, a multiplicative Lyapunov drift toward the boundary, combined with cyclic residence near separated boundary regions, forces every non-fixed interior orbit to have non-convergent Cesàro averages and non-convergent empirical measures. Thus the historic set has full relative Lebesgue measure. The mechanism is independent of hyperbolic specification, wandering domains and positive entropy: in fact, for the maps considered here the topological entropy is carried entirely by the boundary restriction. The non-convergence persists under all positive powers and, more generally, under multiplicatively thick sampling times. The abstract criterion applies to Stein--Ulam and Lotka--Volterra type stochastic operators once the model-specific cyclic coding and logarithmic residence estimates are verified. In explicit cyclic-collar models we identify the full weak-* accumulation set of empirical measures; this accumulation set is a non-trivial circle of probability measures and yields polynomial pointwise emergence of order \(\varepsilon^{-1}\). We also obtain examples with positive-dimensional omega-limit sets by combining the mechanism with a Barański--Misiurewicz type boundary-tracing construction.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7213494248
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