A note on pseudo-Anosov maps with small growth rate.
We consider continuous -cocycles over a minimal homeomorphism of a compact set of finite dimension. We show that the generic cocycle either is uniformly hyperbolic or has uniform subexponential growth.
We study spectral properties of transfer operators for diffeomorphisms on a Riemannian manifold . Suppose that is an isolated hyperbolic subset for , with a compact isolating neighborhood . We first introduce Banach spaces of distributions supported on , which are anisotropic versions of the usual space of functions and of the generalized Sobolev spaces , respectively. We then show that the transfer operators associated to and a smooth weight extend boundedly to these spaces, and...
We consider a family of planar systems introduced in 1991 by Benedicks and Carleson as a toy model for the dynamics of the so-called Hénon maps. We show that Smale’s Axiom A property is -dense among the systems in this family, despite the existence of -open subsets (closely related to the so-called Newhouse phenomena) where Smale’s Axiom A is violated. In particular, this provides some evidence towards Smale’s conjecture that Axiom A is a -dense property among surface diffeomorphisms. The basic...