We show that any direction in the plane occurs as the unique nonexpansive direction of a Z2 action, answering a question of Boyle and Lind. In the case of rational directions, the subaction obtained is non-trivial. We also establish that a cellular automaton acting on a subshift can have zero Lyapunov exponents and at the same time act sensitively; and more generally, for any positive real θ th...

A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of Z was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic Z-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics is readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank one action determine the ...

A framework for understanding the geometry of continuous actions of Z was developed by Boyle and Lind using the notion of expansive behavior along lower-dimensional subspaces. For algebraic Z-actions of entropy rank one, the expansive subdynamics is readily described in terms of Lyapunov exponents. Here we show that periodic point counts for elements of an entropy rank one action determine the ...

The wavelet dimension function for arbitrary real dilations is defined and used to address several questions involving the existence of MRA wavelets and well-localized wavelets for irrational dilations. The theory of quasi-affine frames for rational dilations and the existence of non-MSF wavelets for certain irrational dilations play an important role in this development. Expansive dilations ad...

We introduce a new class of multifunctions called a slightly m-continuous multifunction which is a generalization of both slightly continuous functions [10] and m-continuous multifunctions [33]. In this paper we obtain several properties of such a multifunction.

The spaces for which each δ-continuous function can be extended to a 2δ-small point-open l.s.c. multifunction (resp. point-closed u.s.c. multifunction) are studied. Some sufficient conditions and counterexamples are given.

It is well known that a microperiodic function mapping a topological group into reals, which is continuous at some point is constant. We introduce the notion of a microperiodic multifunction, defined on a topological group with values in a metric space, and study regularity conditions implying an analogous result. We deal with Vietoris and Hausdorff continuity concepts.Stability of microperiodi...

Granular Pile Anchor (GPA) considers one of the solution foundation techniques, designed to mitigate the lifting of the sole resulting from expansive soils. This study work is to investigate the uplift movement response of (GPA) in expansive soil. The laboratory tests have been performed on an experimental. The effects of several parameters, such as length (L) of (GPA) and diameter (D), the thi...