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Genericity of mode-locking for quasiperiodically forced circle maps

arXiv:1607.01700 · doi:10.1007/s00220-017-2870-5

Abstract

We show that a generic quasiperiodically forced circle homeomorphism is mode-locked: the rotation number in the fibres is rationally related to the rotation number in the base and it is stable under small perturbations of the system. As a consequence, this implies that for a generic parameter family of quasiperiodically forced circle homeomorphisms satisfying a twist condition, the graph of the rotation number as a function of the parameter is a devil's staircase.

17 pages,2 figures