We give a simple direct proof of the polar decomposition for separated linear maps in pseudo-Euclidean geometry.

We consider continuous $\mathrm{SL}(2,ℝ)$-cocycles over a minimal homeomorphism of a compact set $K$ of finite dimension. We show that the generic cocycle either is uniformly hyperbolic or has uniform subexponential growth.

We estimate from above and below the Hausdorff dimension of SRB measure for contracting-on-average baker maps.

We estimate the speed of decay of correlations for general nonuniformly expanding dynamical systems, using estimates on the time the system takes to become really expanding. Our method can deal with fast decays, such as exponential or stretched exponential. We prove in particular that the correlations of the Alves-Viana map decay in $O\left({\mathrm{e}}^{-\mathrm{c}\sqrt{\mathrm{n}}}\right)$.

For the real quadratic map $P_a\left(x\right)=x^2+a$ and a given $ϵ\>0$ a point $x$ has good expansion properties if any interval containing $x$ also contains a neighborhood $J$ of $x$ with $P_a^n{|}_J$ univalent, with bounded distortion and $B(0,ϵ)\subseteq P_a^n\left(J\right)$ for some $n\in \mathbb{N}$. The $ϵ$-weakly expanding set is the set of points which do not have good expansion properties. Let $\alpha$ denote the negative fixed point and $M$ the first return time of the critical orbit to $[\alpha ,-\alpha ]$. We show there is a set $ℛ$ of parameters with positive Lebesgue measure for which the Hausdorff dimension of...

Let $f:I\to I$ be a $C^2$ multimodal interval map satisfying polynomial growth of the derivatives along critical orbits. We prove the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium states for the potential ${\phi }_t:x\mapsto -tlog\left|Df\left(x\right)\right|$ for $t$ close to $1$, and also that the pressure function $t\mapsto P\left({\phi }_t\right)$ is analytic on an appropriate interval near $t=1$.

A unified introduction to the dynamics of interval exchange maps and related topics, such as the geometry of translation surfaces, renormalization operators, and Teichmüller flows, starting from the basic definitions and culminating with the proof that almost every interval exchange map is uniquely ergodic. Great emphasis is put on examples and geometric interpretations of the main ideas.

Nous étudions un exemple de transformation non uniformément hyperbolique de l’intervalle $[0,1[$. Des exemples analogues ont été étudiés par de nombreux auteurs. Notre méthode utilise une théorie spectrale, pour une classe d’opérateurs vérifiant des conditions faibles de Doeblin-Fortet, introduite dans [1]. Elle nous permet, en particulier, de donner une estimation de la vitesse de décroissance des corrélations pour des fonctions non höldériennes.

We prove that for Ω being an immediate basin of attraction to an attracting fixed point for a rational mapping of the Riemann sphere, and for an ergodic invariant measure μ on the boundary FrΩ, with positive Lyapunov exponent, there is an invariant subset of FrΩ which is an expanding repeller of Hausdorff dimension arbitrarily close to the Hausdorff dimension of μ. We also prove generalizations and a geometric coding tree abstract version. The paper is a continuation of a paper in Fund. Math. 145...

We prove that a generic linear cocycle over a minimal base dynamics of finite dimension has the property that the Oseledets splitting with respect to any invariant probability coincides almost everywhere with the finest dominated splitting. Therefore the restriction of the generic cocycle to a subbundle of the finest dominated splitting is uniformly subexponentially quasiconformal. This extends a previous result for SL(2,ℝ)-cocycles due to Avila and the author.

We discuss the geometric structures defined by Young in [9, 10], which are used to prove the existence of an ergodic absolutely continuous invariant probability measure and to study the decay of correlations in expanding or hyperbolic systems on large parts.

The local deformations of a submanifold under the effect of a smooth dynamical system are studied with the help of Oseledets’ multiplicative ergodic theorem. Equivalence classes of submanifolds, called jets, are introduced in order to describe these local deformations. They identify submanifolds having the same approximations up to some order at a given point. For every order $k$, a condition on the Lyapunov exponents of the dynamical system is established insuring the convergence of the $k$-jet of...

We consider $C^2$ families $t\mapsto f_t$ of $C^4$ unimodal maps $f_t$ whose critical point is slowly recurrent, and we show that the unique absolutely continuous invariant measure ${\mu }_t$ of $f_t$ depends differentiably on $t$, as a distribution of order $1$. The proof uses transfer operators on towers whose level boundaries are mollified via smooth cutoff functions, in order to avoid artificial discontinuities. We give a new representation of ${\mu }_t$ for a Benedicks-Carleson map $f_t$, in terms of a single smooth function and the inverse branches...

If the monodromy representation of a VHS over a hyperbolic curve stabilizes a rank two subspace, there is a single non-negative Lyapunov exponent associated with it. We derive an explicit formula using only the representation in the case when the monodromy is discrete.