Note on the failure of the strong rotation property for smooth fields with infinite spectrum

20 July 2026, Version 1
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Abstract

The present note identifies the fundamental mechanism governing the extension of the contraction method. Although every periodic vector field defined by a finite trigonometric polynomial admits a bounded deviation from a linear drift, this property fails in general for smooth periodic vector fields. We show that the contraction argument underlying the original proof extends to any field satisfying a natural uniform summability condition, and that the counterexample violates this condition, thereby revealing the obstruction that prevents the method from extending beyond the finite-spectrum setting.

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