Full-Dimensional One-Sided Trapping for Smooth Area-Preserving Plane Maps
Manuscript 17 October 2026 · Online 17 October 2026
Abstract
A point of an invertible plane dynamical system is one-sided trapped if its forward semiorbit is bounded and its backward semiorbit is unbounded. We construct a single smooth area-preserving diffeomorphism of the plane whose trapped set has Hausdorff dimension two. The map has the explicit form F(x,y)=(y,h(y)-x), with h given by a locally finite sum of smooth affine coding blocks. Its trapped set contains compact sets of dimensions 2-3/(j+3) for every positive integer j, and their backward orbits escape geometrically through a common channel. Thus the discrete-time maximum is two in every C^m class, including C-infinity. In contrast, for every complete jointly smooth autonomous area-preserving flow on the plane, a nonempty trapped set has dimension one. A self-contained critical-value argument proves this contrast. Finite-regularity continuous-time maxima are not determined. This is an unrefereed preprint; no independent expert review, formal verification or absolute priority certification is claimed.
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- Affiliation
- Mercury Software GmbH
- Contact
- [email protected] · GitHub
- Result
- Complete theorem (smooth maps and flows)
- Categories
- math.DS · math.CA
- Manuscript
- 17 October 2026
- Online release
- 17 October 2026
- Version
- 1.0
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Citation
Alper Ferudun, “Full-Dimensional One-Sided Trapping for Smooth Area-Preserving Plane Maps,” EulerSolve Research Papers, AMR-051-0010, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23429529.
BibTeX
@misc{ferudun2026smoothtrapping,
author = {Ferudun, Alper},
title = {Full-Dimensional One-Sided Trapping for Smooth Area-Preserving Plane Maps},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/amr-051-0010/},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23429529},
note = {AMR-051-0010; unrefereed preprint}
}