Recent observations of the Universe have led to a conclusion suppressing an up-to-now supposed deceleration of the Universe caused by attractive gravitational forces. Contrary, there is a renaissance of the cosmological member Λ and introduction of enigmatic repulsive dark energy in attempts to rationalize a would-be acceleration of the Universe expansion. It is documented that the model of Exp...

In this paper we consider Z-actions, d ≥ 1, by automorphisms of compact connected abelian groups which contain at least one expansive automorphism (such actions are called algebraic Z-actions of expansive rank one). If α is such a Z-action on an infinite compact connected abelian group X, then every expansive element α of this action has a dense group ∆αn(X) of homoclinic points. For different ...

This paper concerns the dynamics of non-expansive maps on strictly convex finite dimensional normed spaces. By using results of Edelstein and Lyubich, we show that if X = (R, ‖ · ‖) is strictly convex and X has no 1-complemented Euclidean plane, then every bounded orbit of a non-expansive map f : X → X , converges to a periodic orbit. By putting extra assumptions on the derivatives of the norm,...