Lecture Notes and Exercises
Lecture Notes:
Topological Dynamics
Lecture note 1: Basic examples and transitivity
Lecture note 2: Minimality and recurrence
Lecture note 3: Shift space and symbolic dynamics
Lecture note 4: Topological entropy--1st definition
Lecture note 5: Examples and 2nd definition of topological entropy
Lecture note 6: Interval maps and Sharkovsky's theorem
Lecture note 7: Hyperbolic toral automorphisms
Lecture note 8: Circle homeomorphisms and rotation numbers
Measure Theoretic Dynamics
Ergodic Theory
Lecture note 9: Invariant measures
Lecture note 10: Ergodic measures
Lecture note 11: Poincare Recurrence and Kac's Theorem
Lecture note 12: Von Neumann and Birkhoff Ergodic Theorems
Lecture note 13: Unique Ergodicity
Lecture note 14: Mixing Properties and the Spectral Viewpoint
Measure Theoretic Entropy and Thermodynamic Formalism
Lecture note 15: Measure theoretic entropy
Lecture note 16: Markov measures and Parry measures
Lecture note 17: Mesure theoretic aspects of Markov maps
Lecture note 18: Ising model, pressure functions and Gibbs measures
Lecture note 19: Ruelle operator and Ruelle's Perron-Frobenius Theorem
Lecture note 20: Gibbs measures are equilibrium states