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Synchronization Properties of Random Piecewise Isometries

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We study the synchronization properties of the random double rotations on tori. We give a criterion that show when synchronization is present in the case of random double rotations on the circle and prove that it is always absent in dimensions two and higher.

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Communicated by K. Khanin

V. K. was supported in part by RFBR project 13-01-00969-a and RFBR/CNRS joint project 10-01-93115-CNRS_a.

A. G. was supported in part by NSF grants DMS-1301515 and IIS-1018433.

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Gorodetski, A., Kleptsyn, V. Synchronization Properties of Random Piecewise Isometries. Commun. Math. Phys. 345, 781–796 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2678-8

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