Based on previous work of the authors, to any S-adic development of a subshift X a ‘directive sequence’ of commutative diagrams is associated, which consists at every level $n \geq 0$ of the measure cone and the letter frequency cone of the level subshift $X_n$ associated canonically to the given S-adic development. The issuing rich picture enables one to deduce results about X with unexpected directness. For instance, we exhibit a large class of minimal subshifts with entropy zero that all have infinitely many ergodic probability measures. As a side result, we also exhibit, for any integer $d \geq 2$, an S-adic development of a minimal, aperiodic, uniquely ergodic subshift X, where all level alphabets $\mathcal A_n$ have cardinality $d,$ while none of the $d-2$ bottom level morphisms is recognizable in its level subshift $X_n \subseteq \mathcal A_n^{\mathbb {Z}}$.

We construct an invariant measure for a piecewise analytic interval map whose Lyapunov exponent is not defined. Moreover, for a set of full measure, the pointwise Lyapunov exponent is not defined. This map has a Lorenz-like singularity and non-flat critical points.

We study C1-robustly transitive and nonhyperbolic diffeomorphisms having a partially hyperbolic splitting with one-dimensional central bundle whose strong un-/stable foliations are both minimal. In dimension 3, an important class of examples of such systems is given by those with a simple closed periodic curve tangent to the central bundle. We prove that there is a C1-open and dense subset of such diffeomorphisms such that every nonhyperbolic ergodic measure (i.e. with zero central exponent) can be approximated in the weak* topology and in entropy by measures supported in basic sets with positive (negative) central Lyapunov exponent. Our method also allows to show how entropy changes across measures with central Lyapunov exponent close to zero. We also prove that any nonhyperbolic ergodic measure is in the intersection of the convex hulls of the measures with positive central exponent and with negative central exponent.

Let $F$ be a non-discrete non-Archimedean locally compact field and ${\mathcal{O}}_{F}$ the ring of integers in $F$ . The main results of this paper are the classification of ergodic probability measures on the space $\text{Mat}(\mathbb{N},F)$ of infinite matrices with entries in $F$ with respect to the natural action of the group $\text{GL}(\infty ,{\mathcal{O}}_{F})\times \text{GL}(\infty ,{\mathcal{O}}_{F})$ and the classification, for non-dyadic $F$ , of ergodic probability measures on the space $\text{Sym}(\mathbb{N},F)$ of infinite symmetric matrices with respect to the natural action of the group $\text{GL}(\infty ,{\mathcal{O}}_{F})$ .

In this paper we examine the effects of perturbing certain deterministic dynamical systems possessing a stable limit cycle by an additive white noise term with small intensity. We place assumptions on the system guaranteeing that when noise is present the corresponding random process generates an ergodic probability measure. We then determine the behavior of the invariant measure when the noise intensity is small.