Aubry's completeness conjecture for twist maps
Aubry's completeness conjecture for twist maps
Let be a twist map, let , and let be the set of orbits corresponding to minimal configurations with . Let denote the relevant cohomology function, so that 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 is uniformly hyperbolic, then the graph of 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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