In this paper, we present a generalized Toeplitz determinant solution for the generalized Schur flow and propose a mixed form of the two known relativistic Toda chains together with its generalized Toeplitz determinant solution. In addition, we also give a Hankel type determinant solution for a nonisospectral Toda lattice. All these results are obtained by technical determinant operations. As a bonus, we finally obtain some new combinatorial numbers based on the moment relations with respect to these semi-discrete integrable systems and give the corresponding combinatorial interpretations by means of the lattice paths.

Let f be a holomorphic automorphism of a compact Kähler manifold. Assume that f admits a unique maximal dynamic degree d_p with only one eigenvalue of maximal modulus. Let μ be its equilibrium measure. In this paper, we prove that μ is exponentially mixing for all d.s.h. test functions.

We consider a measurable matrix-valued cocycle A: Z+ X Rd d, driven by a measurepreserving transformation T of a probability space (X,, ), with the integrability condition log+ A (1,) L1 (). We show that for -ae x X, if limn 1 n log A (n, x) v= 0 for all v Rd\{0}, then the trajectory {A (n, x) v} n= 0 is far away from 0 (ie lim supn A (n, x) v> 0) and there is some nonzero v such that lim supn A (n, x) v v. This improves the classical multiplicative ergodic theorem of Oseledec. We here present an application to linear random processes to illustrate the importance.

Consider a perturbed KdV equation: ut +uxxx −6uux = εf(u(·)), x ∈ T = R/Z, where the nonlinear perturbation defines analytic operators u(·) 􏰀→ f(u(·)) in sufficiently smooth Sobolev spaces. Assume that the equation has an ε-quasi- invariant measure μ and satisfies some additional mild assumptions. Let uε(t) be a solution. Then on time intervals of order ε−1, as ε → 0, its actions I(uε(t,·)) can be approximated by solutions of a certain well-posed averaged equation, provided that the initial datum is μ-typical.

The classical Morse theory proceeds by considering sublevel sets f^{−1}(−∞,a] of a Morse function f:M→R, where M is a smooth finite-dimensional manifold. In this paper, we study the topology of the level sets f^{−1}(a) and give conditions under which the topology of f^{−1}(a) changes when passing a critical value. We show that for a general class of functions, which includes all exhaustive Morse functions, the topology of a regular level f^{−1}(a) always changes when passing a single critical point, unless the index of the critical point is half the dimension of the manifold M. When f is a natural Hamiltonian on a cotangent bundle, we obtain more precise results in terms of the topology of the base space. (Counter-)examples and applications to celestial mechanics are also discussed.