Aubry's completeness conjecture for twist maps

Let FF be a twist map, let c1<c2c_1<c_2, and let Λ[c1,c2]\Lambda_{[c_1,c_2]} be the set of orbits corresponding to minimal configurations with c[c1,c2]c\in[c_1,c_2]. Let α\alpha denote the relevant cohomology function, so that Dα:[c1,c2]RD\alpha:[c_1,c_2]\to\mathbb{R} is the graph of rotation numbers as a function of cohomology classes. A function is purely singularly continuous if it is continuous, nonconstant, and has derivative vanishing almost everywhere. Aubry's completeness conjecture. If Λ[c1,c2]\Lambda_{[c_1,c_2]} is uniformly hyperbolic, then the graph of Dα:[c1,c2]RD\alpha:[c_1,c_2]\to\mathbb{R} is purely singularly continuous. This is Aubry's complete devil's staircase conjecture, expressing that the rotation-number graph has no intervals of positive derivative; the paper states that the conjecture is proved under the stated uniform hyperbolicity hypothesis.

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Tianqi Shi and Jinxin Xue, “On Aubry's completeness conjecture”, arXiv:2605.00305 (2026).

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