We investigate Sarnak's M\"obius Disjointness Conjecture through asymptotically periodic functions. It is shown that Sarnak's conjecture for rigid dynamical systems is equivalent to the disjointness of M\"obius from asymptotically periodic functions. We give sufficient conditions and a partial answer to the later one. As an application, we show that Sarnak's conjecture holds for a class of rigid dynamical systems, which improves an earlier result of Kanigowski-Lema{\'{n}}czyk-Radziwi{\l}{\l}.

The fundamental problem of nonlinear filtering theory is how to solve robust D-M-Z equation in real time and in memoryless manner. This paper describes a new real time algorithm which reduces the nonlinear filtering problem to off-line computations. Our algorithm gives convergent solutions in both pointwise sense and L/sup 2/ in case that the drift term and observation dynamic term have linear growths. The algorithm presented is slightly better than that given in our previous paper (2000).

Consider a system of periodic pendulum lattice with analytic weak coupling: i x ̈i +sinxi =−ε 􏰀 ∂xiβα(xj,xj+1,xj+2), xi =xi+N, i∈Z, j =i−2 where N 􏰃 3 is an integer, ε > 0 is a small parameter and the function βα is an analytic function of a certain form. It is shown in this paper that for small enough ε, the system admits motions such that the energy transfers between the pendulums in any predetermined order.