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The Brjuno function continuously estimates the size of quadratic Siegel disks

Xavier Buff, Arnaud Cheritat

math.DSarXiv:math/0401044

Abstract

If alpha is an irrational number, we define Yoccoz's Brjuno function Phi by Phi(alpha)=sumn geq 0 alpha0*alpha1*...*alphan-1*log(1/alphan), where alpha0 is the fractional part of alpha and alphan+1 is the fractional part of 1/alphan. The numbers alpha such that Phi(alpha)<infty are called the Brjuno numbers. The quadratic polynomial Palpha:z -> e2i pi alphaz+z2 has an indifferent fixed point at the origin. If Palpha is linearizable, we let r(alpha) be the conformal radius of the Siegel disk and we set r(alpha)=0 otherwise. Yoccoz proved that Phi(alpha)=infty if and only if r(alpha)=0 and that the restriction of alpha -> Phi(alpha)+log r(alpha) to the set of Brjuno numbers is bounded from below by a universal constant. We proved that it is also bounded from above by a universal constant. In fact, Marmi, Moussa and Yoccoz conjecture that this function extends to R as a Hölder function of exponent 1/2. In this article, we prove that there is a continuous extension to R.

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