## Osaka Journal of Mathematics

### The recurrence time for irrational rotations

Dong Han Kim

#### Abstract

Let $T$ be a measure preserving transformation on $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with a Borel measure $\mu$ and $R_E$ be the first return time to a subset $E$. If $(X,\mu)$ has positive pointwise dimension for almost every $x$, then for almost every $x$ $\limsup_{r \to 0^+} \frac{\log R_{B(x,r)}(x)}{-\log \mu(B(x,r))} \le 1,$ where $B(x,r)$ the the ball centered at $x$ with radius $r$. But the above property does not hold for the neighborhood of the `skewed' ball. Let $B(x,r;s) = (x - r^s, x + r)$ be an interval for $s >0$. For arbitrary $\alpha \ge 1$ and $\beta \ge 1$, there are uncountably many irrational numbers whose rotation satisfy that $\limsup_{r \to 0^+} \frac{\log R_{B(x,r;s)}(x)}{-\log \mu (B(x,r;s))} = \alpha \quad \text{and}\quad \liminf_{r \to 0^+} \frac{\log R_{B(x,r;s)}(x)}{-\log \mu (B(x,r;s))} = \frac{1}{\beta}$ for some $s$.

#### Article information

Source
Osaka J. Math., Volume 43, Number 2 (2006), 351-364.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 6 July 2006

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1152203944

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2262339

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1179.37060

#### Citation

Kim, Dong Han. The recurrence time for irrational rotations. Osaka J. Math. 43 (2006), no. 2, 351--364. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1152203944

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