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Given a binary cylinder with finite prefix $b_1\dots b_N$, repeat a finite block beginning with that prefix indefinitely. The resulting binary sequence is periodic under the shift and represents a periodic point of an interval map of $F$ in the cylinder. If the given prefix consists entirely of ones, append a zero to the block so that its value is less than one; this still preserves the prefix. Since cylinders can be taken inside any nonempty open interval, periodic points are dense.

Every nonempty relatively open interval contains a binary cylinder whose points share a finite prefix. Given nonempty open sets $U,V$, choose such a cylinder $C\subset U$ of length $N$. After $N$ binary shifts, $F^N(C)$ contains $[0,1)$ with the usual half-open cylinder convention. In particular, some point of $C$ maps into $V$. Thus $F$ is topologically transitive: $F^N(U)\cap V\ne \varnothing$. Equivalently, concatenate a prefix placing the point in $U$ with a tail placing its $N$th iterate in $V$.

Choose binary expansions $x=0.b_1{b}_2\dots$ that do not end in an infinite string of ones. The doubling map deletes the first digit: $F(x)=0.b_2{b}_3\dots$. Given $x$ and any neighbourhood of it, choose $N$ sufficiently large that its binary cylinder of length $N$ is small enough, and choose a point $y$ sharing that prefix but with a prescribed tail. After $N$ shifts, the tail of $y$ may be chosen arbitrarily in $[0,1)$. Choose it close to zero or close to one, whichever is at distance more than $1/3$ from $F^N(x)$. Then $|x-y|\le 2^{-N}$ but $|F^N(x)-F^N(y)|>1/3$. Hence the map has sensitive dependence on initial conditions, with a uniform separation constant. At dyadic endpoints the cylinder sharing the chosen terminating expansion still contains points arbitrarily close to the endpoint.

The two independent columns of $V$ remain independent after multiplication by invertible $S$. Since $R=SV$ has zeros below the second row, its leading two-by-two triangular block is invertible. Hence the image under $S$ of the invariant subspace is exactly $\mathrm{span}(e_1,e_2)$. This coordinate plane is invariant under $\hat{A}=SA{S}^{-1}$, forcing the bottom-left block to vanish:The block determinant factors $\det (zI-\hat{A})=\det (zI-B)\det (zI-D)$. Therefore the eigenvalues of $A$ are exactly those of the indicated two-by-two and $(n-2)$-by-$(n-2)$ blocks, counted with algebraic multiplicity. No diagonalizability assumption is needed.

Because $Sw=c{e}_1$ with $c\ne 0$, the similarity transform satisfies $\hat{A}{e}_1={\lambda }_1{e}_1$. Thus its first column is $({\lambda }_1,0,\dots ,0{)}^T$ and it has block form $\left(\begin{array}{cc}{\lambda }_1& \ast \\ 0& B\end{array}\right)$. Taking the determinant gives $\det (zI-\hat{A})=(z-{\lambda }_1)\det (zI-B)$. Similarity preserves the characteristic polynomial. Hence the eigenvalues of $A$, with algebraic multiplicities, are ${\lambda }_1$ and those of $B$.

For side-by-side spheres, reflection in the vertical mid-plane exchanges the spheres while preserving their common velocity, so their axial drags are equal. For vertically aligned spheres, reflection in the horizontal mid-plane exchanges them and reverses velocity; applying linearity to reverse all velocities back restores the original problem and again gives equal axial drag. These are symmetries of the exact two-sphere Stokes problem.

At a distant side-by-side centre, the leading flow produced by one sphere is $3aU/(4b)$ in the direction of translation. On its axis it is $3aU/(2b)$. This ambient entrainment lowers the relative velocity of the other sphere. Using Stokes drag law with that relative velocity gives the mutual drag reduction of two distant translating spheres:The feedback of the corrected force into the other sphere's flow enters at the next order. If the coefficient $6\pi$ is needed directly from the preceding solution, its pressure anomaly is $p=3\mu Ua\cos \theta /(2R^2)$. At the surface the traction components are $t_R=-3\mu U\cos \theta /(2a)$ and $t_{\theta }=3\mu U\sin \theta /(2a)$; their axial projection is the constant $-3\mu U/(2a)$. Integrating over $4\pi a^2$ gives the single-sphere force $-6\pi \mu aU{\mathbf{e}}_z$, as used above.

Substitution givesRotational symmetry about the translation axis forbids a transverse force. Linearity of the Stokes equations and boundary conditions makes the force linear in $U$; dissipation makes the force on the translating sphere oppose its motion. Thus the drag is axial and proportional to $U$, without computing the stress integral. Dimensional analysis further gives scale $\mu aU$; the exact single-sphere coefficient is $6\pi$.

For $\Psi =f(R){\sin }^2\theta$, the angular operator gives $D^2\Psi =(f^{\prime \prime }-2f/R^2){\sin }^2\theta$. If $f=AR+B/R$, then $D^2\Psi =-2A{\sin }^2\theta /R$, which is annihilated by $D^2$, verifying the differential equation. The supplied curl formula givesBoth decay at infinity. At $R=a$, no slip requires $u_R=U\cos \theta$, $u_{\theta }=-U\sin \theta$, so $2(A/a+B/a^3)=U$ and $A/a-B/a^3=U$. ThereforeThis is the decaying translating-sphere solution in the laboratory frame; in the body frame one would additionally include the uniform flow at infinity.

The steady Stokes equations are $-\nabla p+\mu {\nabla }^2\mathbf{u}=0$, $\nabla \cdot \mathbf{u}=0$. Taking the curl gives ${\nabla }^2\mathbf{\omega }=0$. For an axisymmetric azimuthal component $\omega {\mathbf{e}}_{\varphi }$, the vector Laplacian's azimuthal component is $({\nabla }^2-1/(R^2{\sin }^2\theta ))\omega$. Expanding the derivatives showsWith $\omega =-D^2\Psi /(R\sin \theta )$, the vorticity equation consequently gives $D^4\Psi =0$. This derives the streamfunction equation from momentum rather than treating the scalar vorticity component as an ordinary scalar harmonic function.

Treat each arriving caterpillar as one customer in an M-G-infinity queue, with arrival rate $\lambda$ and service time equal to the sum of its three independent exponential stage lifetimes. This is an Erlang distribution of shape three and rate $\mu$, of mean $3/\mu$. Poisson arrivals independently retained according to whether their service has ended give, in stationarity, a Poisson number in service with meanThis is exactly the marginal law of $N$ found above. Each individual remains in service across both metamorphoses; counting a fresh service arrival at each stage would be incorrect.

The chain is positive recurrent, by irreducibility, nonexplosion, and the normalized stationary probability law established above. In particular it is neither null recurrent nor transient. The positive arrival and stage rates are understood in the population model.

The three stage counts are independent Poisson variables of mean $\rho$ under the product law. HenceDividing the joint law by this mass givesThus the conditional stage composition is multinomial with equal stage probabilities.

Put $\rho =\lambda /\mu$. The proposed stationary probability is the productIt sums to one. Divide the balance equation at $(c,r,b)$ by this probability. Incoming immigration from $(c-1,r,b)$ contributes $\lambda c/\rho =\mu c$; incoming first metamorphosis from $(c+1,r-1,b)$ contributes $\mu (c+1)r/(c+1)=\mu r$; the next metamorphosis contributes $\mu b$; incoming death from $(c,r,b+1)$ contributes $\mu (b+1)\rho /(b+1)=\lambda$. Their sum is precisely the outgoing rate. Missing boundary terms contribute zero, as the corresponding coordinate is zero. Thus $\pi Q=0$.

For $\lambda ,\mu >0$ the chain is irreducible: with positive probability all current insects progress and die before another arrival, and from the empty state specified finite arrivals and stage transitions can reach any state. It is nonexplosive, since only finitely many Poisson arrivals occur in a finite interval and each individual makes at most three stage/death transitions. The existence of this normalized stationary law for an irreducible nonexplosive chain implies positive recurrence and uniqueness of the stationary probability law. “Only solution” here means only probability solution; the homogeneous equation itself also admits zero and scalar multiples.

The nonzero off-diagonal rates arewith a transition involving a negative coordinate omitted. These represent arrival, the two metamorphoses, and death. The diagonal generator entry is consequently $-(\lambda +\mu (c+r+b))$, so the holding rate is $\lambda +\mu n$.

Since the measure is finite and $f$ is bounded, $f\in L^1$. By Birkhoff ergodic theorem, $A_{n}f\to f^{\ast }$ almost everywhere. If $|f|\le M$, then $|A_{n}f|\le M$ and therefore $|f^{\ast }|\le M$ almost everywhere. For any finite $p\ge 1$,and this constant is integrable because $\mu (E)<\infty$. The dominated convergence theorem gives $\int |A_{n}f-f^{\ast }{|}^{p}d\mu \to 0$. Thus the ergodic averages converge in every $L^p$, $1\le p<\infty$, without assuming ergodicity.

The Birkhoff ergodic theorem says that for a measure-preserving transformation on a finite measure space and $f\in L^1$, the averages $A_{n}f=n^{-1}{\sum }_{k=0}^{n-1}f\circ {\theta }^k$ converge almost everywhere to an invariant integrable function $f^{\ast }$. This limit is the conditional expectation of $f$ given the invariant sigma-algebra, and $\int f^{\ast }d\mu =\int fd\mu$. If the transformation is ergodic and $\mu (E)>0$, then $f^{\ast }$ equals the constant $\mu (E{)}^{-1}\int fd\mu$ almost everywhere.

As printed, ${\theta }_1(x)=1+x$ is not a self-map of $[0,1]$, so it is not an ergodic transformation of the specified space. No reduction modulo one is stated; if it were imposed it would instead be the identity, also nonergodic.

The map ${\theta }_2(x)=x^2$ is not Lebesgue measure-preserving: the inverse image of $[0,1/4]$ is $[0,1/2]$, of a different measure. It also has nontrivial invariant sets if ergodicity is defined using invariant sets alone. For example,is invariant under squaring because the logarithm inside the fractional part increases by one. Both it and its complement contain intervals of positive length, so their measures are positive. Thus ${\theta }_2$ is not ergodic under either convention.

Reflection ${\theta }_3(x)=1-x$ preserves Lebesgue measure, but $[0,1/4]\cup [3/4,1]$ is invariant of measure $1/2$, so it is not ergodic. Finally ${\theta }_4$ exchanges the two equally weighted atoms. The only invariant subsets are the empty and full sets, hence ${\theta }_4$ is ergodic despite having period two.

A measurable set is invariant when ${\theta }^{-1}A=A$, or modulo a null set in the measure-theoretic version. A measurable function is invariant when $f\circ \theta =f$, similarly almost everywhere if appropriate. The map is a measure-preserving transformation when $\mu ({\theta }^{-1}A)=\mu (A)$ for every measurable set. A measure-preserving map is ergodic when every invariant measurable set has measure zero or has null complement. On a finite positive measure space, normalize the measure to obtain the equivalent probability-space definition.

Write $s=U(u)+V(v)>0$. The geodesic energy density $E=\frac{1}{2}s({\dot{u}}^2+{\dot{v}}^2)$ is constant, because an affine geodesic has constant speed. Its Euler-Lagrange equations give, with $p=s\dot{u}$,The requested expression isDifferentiate, using $\dot{u}=p/s$ and $\dot{E}=0$:Therefore $K$ is independent of the affine parameter, the Liouville metric geodesic integral. The assumption of affine parametrization is the standard geodesic convention here.

A geodesic with affine parameter is a curve whose velocity is parallel along itself, ${\nabla }_{\dot{\gamma }}\dot{\gamma }=0$. Its energy on a fixed parameter interval is $E(\gamma )=\frac{1}{2}\int ⟨\dot{\gamma },\dot{\gamma }⟩dt$. For a smooth fixed-endpoint variation with variation field $V$, metric compatibility and the torsion-free connection giveThe endpoint term vanishes. Thus a geodesic is a critical point; conversely, vanishing for every interior variation field implies ${\nabla }_t\dot{\gamma }=0$. Affinely parametrized geodesics are precisely the fixed-endpoint energy critical points.