Lyapunov-exponent upper bound for permanent saturation of metric graphs

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Let G=(V,E,l)G=(V,E,l) be a connected metric graph endowed with an interval exchange transformation TT partitioning GG into nn intervals with lengths 1,2,,n\ell_1, \ell_2, \ldots, \ell_n linearly independent over Q\mathbb{Q}. Suppose μ\mu is the Lebesgue measure preserved by TT. Let τs\tau_s denote the saturation time, let ε\varepsilon be the accuracy parameter, and let KK be a graph-dependent constant. Let λ1λn1\lambda_1 \geq \dots \geq \lambda_{n-1} be the non-negative Lyapunov exponents of TT. Lyapunov-exponent saturation conjecture. The saturation time satisfies

τsKexp(i=1n1λi)ε(log(Kexp(i=1n1λi))logε)n1.\tau_s \leq \frac{K \cdot \exp\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\lambda_i\right)}{\varepsilon}\left(\log\left(K \cdot \exp\left(\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\lambda_i\right)\right)-\log\varepsilon\right)^{n-1}.

The conjectural bound is motivated by the proposed relationship between saturation time and Lyapunov-exponent growth, but the source reports only numerical support and does not establish the inequality.

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Egor Ermolaev, Vsevolod Chernyshev and Alexandra Skripchenko, “Upper Bound for Permanent Saturation of Metric Graphs using Interval Exchange Transformations”, arXiv:2512.13851 (2026).

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