We prove the abundance of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures for diffeomorphisms away from ones with a homoclinic tangency. This is motivated by conjectures of Palis on the existence of physical (Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen) measures for global dynamics. The main novelty in this paper is that we have to deeply study Gibbs $cu$-states in different levels. Note that we have to use random perturbations to give some upper bound of the level of Gibbs $cu$-states.
We give a description of ergodic components of SRB measures in terms of ergodic homoclinic classes associated to hyperbolic periodic points. For transitive surface diffeomorphisms, we prove that there exists at most one SRB measure.
A $C^\infty$ surface diffeomorphism admits a SRB measure if and only if the set \left \{x, \limsup_n \frac{1}{ n} \log \|d_xf^n \|> 0\right\} has positive Lebesgue measure. Moreover the basins of the ergodic SRB measures are covering this set Lebesgue almost everywhere. We also obtain similar results for $C^r$ surface diffeomorphisms with $+\infty>r>1$.
In this paper, we study the existence of SRB measures for infinite dimensional dynamical systems in a Banach space. We show that if the system has a partially hyperbolic attractor with nontrivial finite dimensional unstable directions, then it has an SRB measure.
In this paper we give an upper bound for the number of SRB measures of saddle type of local diffeomorphisms of boundaryless manifolds in terms of maximal cardinality of set of periodic points without any homoclinic relation.
We discuss a notion of phase transitions in multicomponent systems and clarify relations between deterministic chaotic and stochastic models of this type of systems. Connections between various definitions of SRB measures are considered as well.
It is known that nonuniformly hyperbolic maps admitting singularities have at most countably many ergodic Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures. These maps include the Belykh attractor, the geometric Lorenz attractor, and more general Lorenz-type systems. In this paper, we establish easily verifiable sufficient conditions guaranteeing that the number of ergodic SRB measures is at most finite, and provide examples and nonexamples showing that the conditions are necessary in general.
We prove that a $C^1$ hyperbolic map whose differential is regular enough has an SRB measure. The precise regularity condition is weaker than H{ö}lder and was mentionned by various authors through the developement of expanding and uniformly hyperbolic dynamics.
We prove the existence and uniqueness of the SRB measure for singular partially hyperbolic flow in dimension $d\ge 3$. The proof does not use Poincaré sectional maps, but uses basic properties of thermodynamic formalism.
We construct SRB measures for endomorphisms satisfying conditions far weaker than the non-uniformly expansion. As a consequence, the definition of non-uniformly expanding map can be weakened. We also prove the existence of an absolutely continuous invariant measure for local diffeomorphisms, only assuming the existence of hyperbolic times for Lebesgue almost all point of the manifold.
We consider classes of dynamical systems admitting Markov induced maps. Under general assumptions, which in particular guarantee the existence of SRB measures, we prove that the entropy of the SRB measure varies continuously with the dynamics. We apply our result to a vast class of non-uniformly expanding maps of a compact manifold and prove the continuity of the entropy of the SRB measure. In particular, we show that the SRB entropy of Viana maps varies continuously with the map.
In this paper, we study the existence of SRB measures and their properties for infinite dimensional dynamical systems in a Hilbert space. We show several results including (i) if the system has a partially hyperbolic attractor with nontrivial finite dimensional unstable directions, then it has at least one SRB measure; (ii) if the attractor is uniformly hyperbolic and the system is topological mixing and the splitting is Hölder continuous, then there exists a unique SRB measure which is mixing; (iii) if the attractor is uniformly hyperbolic and the system is non-wondering and and the splitting…
We prove the existence of SRB measures for diffeomorphisms where a positive volume set of initial conditions satisfy an "effective hyperbolicity" condition that guarantees certain recurrence conditions on the iterates of Lebesgue measure. We give examples of systems that do not admit a dominated splitting but can be shown to have SRB measures using our methods.
We study the existence of SRB measures of C 2 diffeomorphisms for attractors whose bundles admit Holder continuous invariant (non-dominated) splittings. We prove the existence when one subbundle has the non-uniform expanding property on a set with positive Lebesgue measure and the other subbundle admits non-positive Lyapunov exponents on a total probability set.
We give a geometric proof, offering a new and quite different perspective on an earlier result of Ledrappier and Young on random transformations. We show that under mild conditions, sample measures of random diffeomorphisms are SRB measures. As sample measures are the limits of forward images of stationary measures, they can be thought of as the analog of physical measures for deterministic systems. Our results thus show the equivalence of physical and SRB measures in the random setting, a hoped-for scenario that is not always true for deterministic maps.
We study polygonal billiards with reflection laws contracting the reflected angle towards the normal. It is shown that if a polygon does not have parallel sides facing each other, then the corresponding billiard map has finitely many ergodic SRB measures whose basins cover a set of full Lebesgue measure.
For any C1 expanding map f of the circle we study the equilibrium states for the potential -log |f'|. We formulate a C1 generalization of Pesin's Entropy Formula that holds for all the SRB measures if they exist, and for all the (necessarily existing) SRB-like measures. In the C1-generic case Pesin's Entropy Formula holds for a unique SRB measure which is not absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue. The result also stands in the non generic case for which no SRB measure exists.
We prove that polygonal billiards with contracting reflection laws exhibit hyperbolic attractors with countably many ergodic SRB measures. These measures are robust under small perturbations of the reflection law, and the tables for which they exist form a generic set in the space of all polygons. Specific polygonal tables are studied in detail.
In this paper we improve the results of \cite{MT} and show that a weak hyperbolic transitivity implies the uniqueness of hyperbolic SRB measures. As an important corollary, it arises the ergodicity of the system in a conservative setting. It also arises the condition which implies the stable ergodicity as well as the statistical stability for a general $C^2$-regular map.
In the present paper we contribute to the thermodynamic formalism of partially hyperbolic attractors for local diffeomorphisms admitting an invariant stable bundle and a positively invariant cone field with non-uniform cone expansion at a positive Lebesgue measure set of points. These include the case of attractors for Axiom A endomorphisms and partially hyperbolic endomorphisms derived from Anosov. We prove these attractors have finitely many SRB measures, that these are hyperbolic, and that the SRB measure is unique provided the dynamics is transitive. Moreover, we show that the SRB measures…
Let $M$ be a Riemannian, boundaryless, and compact manifold, with $\dim M\geq 2$ and let $f$ be a $C^{1+}$ diffeomorphism. We show that there is a hyperbolic SRB measure if and only if there exists an unstable leaf with a subset of positive leaf volume of hyperbolic points which return to some Pesin set with positive frequency. This answers a question of Pesin.
We prove that a partially hyperbolic attractor for a $C^1$ vector field with two dimensional center supports an SRB measure. In addition, we show that if the vector field is $C^2$, and the center bundle admits the sectional expanding condition w.r.t. any Gibbs $u$-state, then the attractor can only support finitely many SRB/physical measures whose basins cover Lebesgue almost all points of the topological basin. The proof of these results has to deal with the difficulties which do not occur in the case of diffeomorphisms.
Recently, Burguet proved a strong form of Viana's conjecture on physical measures, in the special case of $C^\infty$ surface diffeomorphisms. We give another proof, based on our analysis of entropy and Lyapunov exponents in [BCS].
We give geometric conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the existence of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures for $C^{1+α}$ surface diffeomorphisms, thus proving a version of the Viana conjecture. As part of our argument we give an original method for constructing first return Young towers, proving that every hyperbolic measure, and in particular every SRB measure, can be lifted to such a tower. This method relies on a new general result on hyperbolic branches and shadowing for pseudo-orbits in nonuniformly hyperbolic sets which is of independent interest.
SRB measures are limiting stationary distributions describing the statistical behavior of chaotic dynamical systems. Directional derivatives of SRB measure densities conditioned on unstable manifolds are critical in the sensitivity analysis of hyperbolic chaos. These derivatives, known as the SRB density gradients, are by-products of the regularization of Lebesgue integrals appearing in the original linear response expression. In this paper, we propose a novel trajectory-driven algorithm for computing the SRB density gradient defined for systems with high-dimensional unstable manifolds. We app…
We consider partially hyperbolic \( C^{1+} \) diffeomorphisms of compact Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary dimension which admit a partially hyperbolic tangent bundle decomposition \( E^s\oplus E^{cu} \). Assuming the existence of a set of positive Lebesgue measure on which \( f \) satisfies a weak nonuniform expansivity assumption in the centre~unstable direction, we prove that there exists at most a finite number of transitive attractors each of which supports an SRB measure. As part of our argument, we prove that each attractor admits a Gibbs-Markov-Young geometric structure with integrable…
We consider a diffeomorphism f of a compact manifold M which is Almost Axiom A, i.e. f is hyperbolic in a neighborhood of some compact f-invariant set, except in some singular set of neutral points. We prove that if there exists some f-invariant set of hyperbolic points with positive unstable-Lebesgue measure such that for every point in this set the stable and unstable leaves are "long enough", then f admits a probability SRB measure.
For any continuous map f on a compact manifold M, we define the SRB-like (or observable) probabilities as a generalization of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (i.e. physical) measures. We prove that f has observable measures, even if SRB measures do not exist. We prove that the definition of observability is optimal, provided that the purpose of the researcher is to describe the asymptotic statistics for Lebesgue almost every initial state. Precisely, the never empty set O of all the observable measures, is the minimal weak*-compact set of Borel probabilities in M that contains the limits (in the weak* topo…
It is well-known that SRB and equilibrium measures for uniformly hyperbolic flows admit a product structure in terms of measures on stable and unstable leaves with scaling properties given by the potential function. We describe a construction of these leaf measures analogous to the definition of Hausdorff measure, relying on the Pesin-Pitskel' description of topological pressure as a dimensional characteristic using Bowen balls. These leaf measures were constructed for discrete-time systems by the author, Ya. Pesin, and A. Zelerowicz. In the continuous-time setting here, the description of the…
In this paper, we provide a technique result on the existence of Gibbs cu-states for diffeomorphisms with dominated splittings. More precisely, for given $C^2$ diffeomorphim $f$ with dominated splitting $T_ΛM = E\oplus F$ on an attractor $Λ$, by considering some suitable random perturbation of $f$, we show that for any zero noise limit of ergodic stationary measures, if it has positive integrable Lyapunov exponents along invariant sub-bundle $E$, then its ergodic components contain Gibbs cu-states associated to $E$. With this technique, we show the existence of SRB measures and physical measur…
We study dynamical systems generated by skew products: $$T: [0,1)\times\mathbb{R}\to [0,1)\times\mathbb{R} \quad\quad T(x,y)=(bx\mod1,γy+ϕ(x))$$ where integer $b\ge2$, $0<γ<1$ and $ϕ$ is a real analytic $\mathbb{Z}$-periodic function. We prove the following dichotomy for the SRB measure $ω$ for $T$: Either the support of $ω$ is a graph of real analytic function, or the dimension of $ω$ is equal to $\min\{2,1+\frac{\log b}{\log1/γ}\}$. Furthermore, given $b$ and $ϕ$, the former alternative only happens for finitely many $γ$ unless $ϕ$ is constant.
In this paper, we study the differentiability of SRB measures for partially hyperbolic systems. We show that for any $s \geq 1$, for any integer $\ell \geq 2$, any sufficiently large $r$, any $φ\in C^{r}(\T, \R)$ such that the map $f : \T^2 \to \T^2, f(x,y) = (\ell x, y + φ(x))$ is $C^r-$stably ergodic, there exists an open neighbourhood of $f$ in $C^r(\T^2,\T^2)$ such that any map in this neighbourhood has a unique SRB measure with $C^{s-1}$ density, which depends on the dynamics in a $C^s$ fashion. We also construct a $C^{\infty}$ mostly contracting partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism $f: \T…
For a C^{1+α} diffeomorphism f preserving a hyperbolic ergodic SRB measure μ, Katok's remarkable results assert that μcan be approximated by a sequence of hyperbolic sets \{Λ_n\}_{n\geq1}. In this paper, we prove the Hausdorff dimension for Λ_n on the unstable manifold tends to the dimension of the unstable manifold. Furthermore, if the stable direction is one dimension, then the Hausdorff dimension of μcan be approximated by the Hausdorff dimension of Λ_n. To establish these results, we utilize the u-Gibbs property of the conditional measure of the equilibrium measure of -ψ^{s}(\cdot,f^n) and…
We show that if f_t is a holomorphic family of quadratic-like maps with all periodic orbits repelling so that for each real t the map f_t is a real Collet-Eckmann S-unimodal map then, writing m_t for the unique absolutely continuous invariant probability measure of f_t, the map t -> \int g dm_t is real analytic for any real analytic function g.
We consider $C^2$ Fréchet differentiable mappings of Banach spaces leaving invariant compactly supported Borel probability measures, and study the relation between entropy and volume growth for a natural notion of volume defined on finite dimensional subspaces. SRB measures are characterized as exactly those measures for which entropy is equal to volume growth on unstable manifolds, equivalently the sum of positive Lyapunov exponents of the map. In addition to numerous difficulties incurred by our infinite-dimensional setting, a crucial aspect to the proof is the technical point that the volum…
Let $f_t:[0,1] \to [0,1]$ be a family of piecewise expanding unimodal maps with a common critical point that is dense for almost all $t \in [a,b]$. If $μ_t$ is the corresponding SRB measure for $f_t$, we study the regularity of $Γ(t)=\int ϕdμ_t$ when assuming that the family is transversal to the topological classes of these maps, more precisely, we prove that if $J_t(c)=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{v_t(f_t^k(c))}{Df_t^k(f_t(c))} \neq 0$ for all $t$, where $v_t(x)=\partial_s f_s(x)|_{s=t}$, then $Γ(t)$ is not Lipschitz for almost all $t\in [a,b]$. Furthermore, we give the exact modulus of continu…
In this paper we address the existence and ergodicity of non-hyperbolic attracting sets for a certain class of smooth endomorphisms on the solid torus. Such systems allow a formulation as a skew product system defined by planar diffeomorphisms have contraction on average which forced by any expanding circle map. These attractors are invariant graphs of upper semicontinuous maps which support exactly one $SRB$ measure. In our approach, these skew product systems arising from iterated function systems generated by a finitely many weak contractive diffeomorphisms. Under some conditions including …
We show that a class of higher-dimensional hyperbolic endomorphisms admit absolutely continuous invariant probabilities whose density are regular. The maps we consider are given by $T(x,y) = (E (x), C(y) + f(x) )$, where $E$ is a linear expanding map of $\mathbb{T}$, $C$ is a linear contracting map of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $f$ is in $C^r(\mathbb{T}^u,\mathbb{R}^d)$ and $r \geq 2$. We prove that if $|(\det C)(\det E)| \|C^{-1}\|^{-2s}>1$ for some $s<r-(\frac{u+d}{2}+1)$ and $T$ satisfies a certain transversality condition, then the density of the SRB measure of $T$ is contained in the Sobolev space $…
In this paper, we study the SRB measures of generalized horseshoe map. We prove that under the conditions of transversality and fatness, the SRB measure is actually absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure.
We study Markov processes generated by iterated function systems (IFS). The constituent maps of the IFS are monotonic transformations of the interval. We first obtain an upper bound on the number of SRB (Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen) measures for the IFS. Then, when all the constituent maps have common fixed points at 0 and 1, theorems are given to analyze properties of the ergodic invariant measures $δ_0$ and $δ_1$. In particular, sufficient conditions for $δ_0$ and/or $δ_1$ to be, or not to be, SRB measures are given. We apply some of our results to asset market games.
We obtain entropy formulas for SRB measures with finite entropy given by inducing schemes. In the first part of the work, we obtain Pesin entropy formula for the class of noninvertible systems whose SRB measures are given by Gibbs-Markov induced maps. In the second part, we obtain Pesin entropy formula for invertible maps whose SRB measures given by Young sets, taking into account a classical compression technique along the stable direction that allows a reduction of the return map associated with a Young set to a Gibbs-Markov map. In both cases, we give applications of our main results to sev…
We prove that every $C^2$ Anosov diffeomorphism in a compact and connected Riemannian manifold has a unique SRB and physical probability measure, whose basin of attraction covers Lebesgue almost every point in the manifold. Then, we use structural stability of Anosov diffeomorphisms to deduce that all $C^1$ Anosov diffeomorphisms on compact and connected Riemannian manifolds are transitive.
We consider open sets of maps in a manifold $M$ exhibiting non-uniform expanding behaviour in some domain $S\subset M$. Assuming that there is a forward invariant region containing $S$ where each map has a unique SRB measure, we prove that under general uniformity conditions, the SRB measure varies continuously in the $L^1$-norm with the map. As a main application we show that the open class of maps introduced in [V] fits to this situation, thus proving that the SRB measures constructed in [A] vary continuously with the map.
An important class of `physically relevant' measures for dynamical systems with hyperbolic behavior is given by Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures. We survey various techniques for constructing SRB measures and studying their properties, paying special attention to the geometric `push-forward' approach. After describing this approach in the uniformly hyperbolic setting, we review recent work that extends it to non-uniformly hyperbolic systems.
Let $\{f_{a,b}\}$ be the (original) Hénon family. In this paper, we show that, for any $b$ near $0$, there exists a closed interval $J_b$ which contains a dense subset $J'$ such that, for any $a\in J'$, $f_{a,b}$ has a quadratic homoclinic tangency associated with a saddle fixed point of $f_{a,b}$ which unfolds generically with respect to the one-parameter family $\{f_{a,b}\}_{a\in J_b}$. By applying this result, we prove that $J_b$ contains a residual subset $A_b^{(2)}$ such that, for any $a\in A_b^{(2)}$, $f_{a,b}$ admits the Newhouse phenomenon. Moreover, the interval $J_b$ contains a dense…
