SRB MEASURES for ALMOST AXIOM a DIFFEOMORPHISMS José Alves, Renaud Leplaideur
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SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS José Alves, Renaud Leplaideur To cite this version: José Alves, Renaud Leplaideur. SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS. 2013. hal-00778407 HAL Id: hal-00778407 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00778407 Preprint submitted on 20 Jan 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS JOSE´ F. ALVES AND RENAUD LEPLAIDEUR Abstract. 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. Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1. Background 2 1.2. Statement of results 2 1.3. Overview 4 2. Markov rectangles 5 2.1. Neighborhood of critical zone 5 2.2. First generation of rectangles 6 2.3. Second generation rectangles 7 2.4. Third generation of rectangles 9 3. Proof of Theorem A 10 3.1. Hyperbolic times 10 3.2. Itinerary and cylinders 12 3.3. SRB measure for the induced map 12 3.4. The SRB measure 15 4. Proof of Theorem B 16 4.1. Graph transform 16 4.2. Truncations 19 4.3. Proof of Theorem B 22 References 24 Date: January 20, 2013. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 37D25, 37D30, 37C40. Key words and phrases. Almost Axiom A, SRB measure. JFA was partly supported by FundaCc~aoCalouste Gulbenkian, by CMUP, by the European Regional Development Fund through the Programme COMPETE and by FCT under the projects PTDC/MAT/099493/2008 and PEst-C/MAT/UI0144/2011. RL was partly supported by ANR Dyn- NonHyp and Research in Pair by CIRM. 1 SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS 2 1. Introduction 1.1. Background. The goal of this paper is to improve results from [10]. It addresses the question of SRB measures for non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems. We remind that SRB measures are special physical measures, which are measures with observable generic points: For a smooth dynamical system (M; f), meaning that M is a compact smooth Rie- mannian manifold and f is a C1+ diffeomorphism acting on M, we recall that the set Gµ of generic points for a f-invariant ergodic probability measure on M µ, is the set of points x such that for every continuous function φ, n−1 1 X Z lim φ f k(x) = φ dµ. (1.1) n!1 n ◦ k=0 This set has full µ measure. Though holding for a big set of points in terms of µ measure, this convergence can be actually observed only when this set Gµ has strictly positive measure with respect to the volume of the manifold, that is with respect to the Lebesgue measure on M. This volume measure will be denoted by LebM . A measure µ is said to be physical if LebM (Gµ) > 0. The conditions yielding the existence of physical measures for non-uniformly hyper- bolic systems has been studied a lot since the 90's (see e.g. [3, 7, 4, 1]) but still remains not entirely solved. The main reason for that is that physical measure are usually pro- duced under the form of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures and there is no general theory to construct the particular Gibbs states that are these SRB measures. One of the explanation of the lack of general theory is probably the large number of ways to degenerate the uniform hyperbolicity. In [10], the author studied a way where the loss of hyperbolicity was due to a critical set S where there was no expansion and no contraction even if the general \hyperbolic" splitting with good angles was still existing on this critical set. Moreover, the non- uniform hyperbolic hypotheses was inspired by the definition of Axiom-A (where there is forward contraction in the stable direction and backward contraction in the unstable direction) but asked for contraction with a lim sup. The main goal of this paper is to prove that this assumption can be released and replaced by a lim inf. Such a result is optimal because this is the weakest possible assumption in the \hyperbolic world". We also emphasize a noticeable second improvement: we prove that the SRB measure constructed is actually a probability measure. As this paper is an improvement of [10], the present paper has a very similar structure to [10] and the statements are also similar. 1.2. Statement of results. We start by defining the class of dynamical systems that we are going to consider. Definition 1.1. Given f : M M a C1+ diffeomorphism and Ω M a compact f- invariant set, we say that f is!Almost Axiom A on Ω if there exists⊂ an open set U Ω such that: ⊃ SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS 3 (1) for every x U there is a df-invariant splitting (invariant where it makes sense) 2 u s u s of the tangent space TxM = E (x) E (x) with x E (x) and x E (x) H¨oldercontinuous (with uniformly bounded⊕ H¨olderconstant);7! 7! (2) there exist continuous nonnegative real functions x ku(x) and x ks(x) such that (for some choice of a Riemannian norm 7!on M) for all x 7!U −ks(x) s k k 2 (a) df(x)v f(x) e v x; v E (x), k k ≤ ku(x) k k 8 2 u (b) df(x)v f(x) e v x; v E (x); (3) the exceptionalk k set≥, S = kx k U;8 ku(2x) = ks(x) = 0 , satisfies f(S) = S. f 2 g From here on we assume that f is Almost Axiom A on Ω. The sets S and U Ω u s ⊃ and the functions k and k are fixed as in the definition, and the splitting TxM = Eu(x) Es(x) is called the hyperbolic splitting. ⊕ Definition 1.2. A point x Ω is called a point of integration of the hyperbolic splitting 21 u s if there exist " > 0 and C -disks D" (x) and D"(x) of size " centered at x such that i i i TyD (x) = E (y) for all y D (x) and i = u; s. " 2 " By definition, the set of points of integration is invariant by f. As usual, having the two families of local stable and unstable manifolds defined, we define u [ n u −n s [ −n s n (x) = f D"(−n)(f (x)) and (x) = f D"(n)(f (x)); F n≥0 F n≥0 where "(n) is the size of the disks associated to f n(x). They are called the global stable and unstable manifolds, respectively. Given a point of integration of the hyperbolic splitting x, the manifolds u(x) and s(x) are also immersed Riemannian manifolds. We denote by du and ds theF Riemann- F u s u ian metrics, and by Lebx and Lebx the Riemannian measures, respectively in (x) and s(x). If a measurable partition is subordinated to the unstable foliation Fu (see [11] andF [9]), any f-invariant measure admits a unique system of conditional measuresF with respect to the given partition. Definition 1.3. We say that an invariant and ergodic probability having absolutely u u continuous conditional measures on unstable leaves (x) with respect to Lebx is a Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measure. F Definition 1.4. Given λ > 0, a point x Ω is said to be λ-hyperbolic if 2 1 −n 1 n lim inf log df (x)jEu(x) 6 λ and lim inf log df (x)jEs(x) 6 λ. n!+1 n k k − n!+1 n k k − Definition 1.5. Given λ > 0 and "0 > 0, a point x Ω is called ("0; λ)-regular if the following conditions hold: 2 (1) x is λ-hyperbolic and a point of integration of the hyperbolic splitting; i i (2) (x) contains a disk D (x) of size "0 centered at x, for i = u; s. F "0 An f-invariant compact set Λ Ω is said to be an ("0; λ)-regular set if all points in Λ ⊂ are ("0; λ)-regular. Theorem A. Let Λ be an ("0; λ)-regular set. If there exists some point x0 Λ such u 2 u that LebD (x0)(D" (x0) Λ) > 0, then f has a SRB measure. "0 0 \ SRB MEASURES FOR ALMOST AXIOM A DIFFEOMORPHISMS 4 Note that the hypothesis of Theorem A is very weak. If there exists some probability SRB measure, µ, then, there exists some ("0; λ)-regular set Λ of full µ measure such u u that for µ-a.e. x in Λ, Lebx(D"0 (x) Λ) > 0. On the other hand, a work due to M. Herman ([6]) proves that there exist\ some dynamical systems on the circle such that Lebesgue-almost-every point is \hyperbolic" but there is no SRB measure (even σ-finite).