Entropy Production for a Class of Inverse SRB Measures

We study the entropy production for inverse SRB measures for a class of hyperbolic folded repellers presenting both expanding and contracting directions. We prove that for most such maps we obtain strictly negative entropy production of the respective inverse SRB measures. Moreover we provide concrete examples of hyperbolic folded repellers where this happens.     

On the Continuity of the SRB Entropy for Endomorphisms

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.     

Linear Response Function for Coupled Hyperbolic Attractors

The SRB measures of a hyperbolic system are widely accepted as the measures that are physically relevant. It has been shown by Ruelle that they depend smoothly on the system. Furthermore, Ruelle showed by a separate argument that the first derivative, i.e., the linear response function, admits a geometric interpretation. In this paper, we consider thermodynamic limits of SRB measures in lattices of coupled hyperbolic attractors. In a previous paper, using Markov partitions and thermodynamic formalism, we had established the smooth dependence of thermodynamic limits of SRB measures. Here, we establish that the linear response function admits a geometric interpretation. The formula is analogous to the one found by Ruelle for finite dimensional systems if one term is reinterpreted appropriately. We show that the limiting derivative is the thermodynamic limit of the derivatives in finite volume. We also obtain similar results for the derivatives of the entropy. Supported in part by NSF grants.     

The Geometric Approach for Constructing Sinai–Ruelle–Bowen Measures

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.     

Generalized Physical and SRB Measures for Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms

In this paper we introduce the notion of generalized physical and SRB measures. These measures naturally generalize classical physical and SRB measures to measures which are supported on invariant sets that are not necessarily attractors. We then perform a detailed case study of these measures for hyperbolic Hènon maps. For this class of systems we are able to develop a complete theory about the existence, uniqueness, finiteness, and properties of these natural measures. Moreover, we derive a classification for the existence of a measure of full dimension. We also consider general hyperbolic surface diffeomorphisms and discuss possible extensions of, as well as the differences to, the results for Hènon maps. Finally, we study the regular dependence of the dimension of the generalized physical/SRB measure on the diffeomorphism. For the proofs we apply various techniques from smooth ergodic theory including the thermodynamic formalism. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary: 37C45, 37D20, 37D35, Secondary: 37A35, 37E30     

Generalizations of SRB Measures to Nonautonomous,Random, and Infinite Dimensional Systems

We review some developments that are direct outgrowths of, or closely related to, the idea of SRB measures as introduced by Sinai, Ruelle and Bowen in the 1970s. These new directions of research include the emergence of strange attractors in periodically forced dynamical systems, random attractors in systems defined by stochastic differential equations, SRB measures for infinite dimensional systems including those defined by large classes of dissipative PDEs, quasi-static distributions for slowly varying time-dependent systems, and surviving distributions in leaky dynamical systems.     

An analytical construction of the SRB measures for Baker-type maps

For a class of dynamical systems, called the axiom-A systems, Sinai, Ruelle and Bowen showed the existence of an invariant measure (SRB measure) weakly attracting the temporal average of any initial distribution that is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. Recently, the SRB measures were found to be related to the nonequilibrium stationary state distribution functions for thermostated or open systems. Inspite of the importance of these SRB measures, it is difficult to handle them analytically because they are often singular functions. In this article, for three kinds of Baker-type maps, the SRB measures are analytically constructed with the aid of a functional equation, which was proposed by de Rham in order to deal with a class of singular functions. We first briefly review the properties of singular functions including those of de Rham. Then, the Baker-type maps are described, one of which is nonconservative but time reversible, the second has a Cantor-like invariant set, and the third is a model of a simple chemical reaction R<-->I<-->P. For the second example, the cases with and without escape are considered. For the last example, we consider the reaction processes in a closed system and in an open system under a flux boundary condition. In all cases, we show that the evolution equation of the distribution functions partially integrated over the unstable direction is very similar to de Rham's functional equation and, employing this analogy, we explicitly construct the SRB measures. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.     

SRB Measures for Polygonal Billiards with Contracting Reflection Laws

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 convex polygons. Specific polygonal tables are studied in detail.     

From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors

We define a quantitative notion of shear for limit cycles of flows. We prove that strange attractors and SRB measures emerge when systems exhibiting limit cycles with sufficient shear are subjected to periodic pulsatile drives. The strange attractors possess a number of precisely-defined dynamical properties that together imply chaos that is both sustained in time and physically observable.     

Strange Attractors with One Direction of Instability

We give simple conditions that guarantee, for strongly dissipative maps, the existence of strange attractors with a single direction of instability and certain controlled behaviors. Only the d= 2 case is treated in this paper, although our approach is by no means limited to two phase-dimensions. We develop a dynamical picture for the attractors in this class, proving they have many of the statistical properties associated with chaos: positive Lyapunov exponents, existence of SRB measures, and exponential decay of correlations. Other results include the geometry of fractal critical sets, nonuniform hyperbolic behavior, symbolic coding of orbits, and formulas for topological entropy. Received: 25 April 2000 / Accepted: 17 October 2000     

Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen Measures for Lattice Dynamical Systems

For weakly coupled expanding maps on the unit circle, Bricmont and Kupiainen showed that the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measure exists as a Gibbs state. Via thermodynamic formalism, we prove that this SRB measure is indeed the unique equilibrium state for a Hölder continuous potential function on the infinite dimensional phase space. For a more general class of lattice systems that are small perturbations of the uncoupled map lattice, we present the variational principle, the entropy formula, and the formula for the potential function for the SRB measures. For coupled map lattices with nearest neighbor interactions, we give an explicit formula of the potential function for the SRB measure and consequently, obtain the entropy in terms of coupling parameters.     

Strange Attractors in Periodically-Kicked Limit Cycles and Hopf Bifurcations

We prove the emergence of chaotic behavior in the form of horseshoes and strange attractors with SRB measures when certain simple dynamical systems are kicked at periodic time intervals. The settings considered include limit cycles and stationary points undergoing Hopf bifurcations.     

Correlation Spectrum of Quenched and Annealed Equilibrium States for Random Expanding Maps

We show that the integrated transfer operators for positively weighted independent identically distributed smooth expanding systems give rise to annealed equilibrium states for a new variational principle. The unique annealed equilibrium state coincides with the unique annealed Gibbs state. Using work of Ruelle [1990] and Fried [1995] on generalised Fredholm determinants for transfer operators, we prove that the discrete spectrum of the transfer operators coincides with the correlation spectrum of these invariant measures (yielding exponential decay of correlations), and with the poles of an annealed zeta function, defined also for complex weights. A modified integrated transfer operator is introduced, which describes the (relativised) quenched states studied e.g. by Kifer [1992], and conditions (including SRB) ensuring coincidence of quenched and annealed states are given. For small random perturbations we obtain stability results on the quenched and annealed measures and spectra by applying perturbative results of Young and the author [1993]. Received: 16 April 1996 / Accepted: 25 October 1996     

Statistical Stability and Continuity of SRB Entropy for Systems with Gibbs-Markov Structures

We present conditions on families of diffeomorphisms that guarantee statistical stability and SRB entropy continuity. They rely on the existence of horseshoe-like sets with infinitely many branches and variable return times. As an application we consider the family of Hénon maps within the set of Benedicks-Carleson parameters.     

Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures

This article attempts a unification of the two approaches that have dominated theoretical climate dynamics since its inception in the 1960s: the nonlinear deterministic and the linear stochastic one. This unification, via the theory of random dynamical systems (RDS), allows one to consider the detailed geometric structure of the random attractors associated with nonlinear, stochastically perturbed systems. We report on high-resolution numerical studies of two idealized models of fundamental interest for climate dynamics. The first of the two is a stochastically forced version of the classical Lorenz model. The second one is a low-dimensional, nonlinear stochastic model of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). These studies provide a good approximation of the two models’ global random attractors, as well as of the time-dependent invariant measures supported by these attractors; the latter are shown to have an intuitive physical interpretation as random versions of Sinaï-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measures.     

Physical Measures for Multivalued Inverse Iterates Near Hyperbolic Repellors

We study new invariant probability measures, describing the distribution of multivalued inverse iterates (i.e. of different local inverse iterates) for a non-invertible smooth function f which is hyperbolic, but not necessarily expanding on a repellor Λ. The methods for the higher dimensional non-expanding and non-invertible case are different than the ones for diffeomorphisms, due to the lack of a nice unstable foliation (local unstable manifolds depend on prehistories and may intersect each other, both in Λ and outside Λ), and the fact that Markov partitions may not exist on Λ. We obtain that for Lebesgue almost all points z in a neighbourhood V of Λ, the normalized averages of Dirac measures on the consecutive preimage sets of z converge weakly to an equilibrium measure μ ⁻ on Λ; this implies that μ ⁻ is a physical measure for the local inverse iterates of f. It turns out that μ ⁻ is an inverse SRB measure in the sense that it is the only invariant measure satisfying a Pesin type formula for the negative Lyapunov exponents. Also we show that μ ⁻ has absolutely continuous conditional measures on local stable manifolds, by using the above convergence of measures. We prove then that f:(Λ,ℬ(Λ),μ ⁻)→(Λ,ℬ(Λ),μ ⁻) cannot be one-sided Bernoulli, although it is an exact endomorphism of Lebesgue spaces. Several classes of examples of hyperbolic non-invertible and non-expanding repellors, with their inverse SRB measures, are given in the end.     

Slow Rates of Mixing for Dynamical Systems with Hyperbolic Structures

We consider invertible discrete-time dynamical systems having a hyperbolic product structure in some region of the phase space with infinitely many branches and variable return time. We show that the decay of correlations of the SRB measure associated to that hyperbolic structure is related to the tail of the recurrence times. We also give sufficient conditions for the validity of the Central Limit Theorem. This extends previous results by Young in (Ann. Math. 147: 585–650, [1998]; Israel J. Math. 110: 153–188, [1999]). Work carried out at the Federal University of Bahia, University of Porto and IMPA. J.F.A. was partially supported by FCT through CMUP and POCI/MAT/61237/2004. V.P. was partially supported by PADCT/CNPq and POCI/MAT/61237/2004.     

Uniqueness of the SRB Measure for Piecewise Expanding Weakly Coupled Map Lattices in Any Dimension

We prove the existence of a unique SRB measure for a wide range of multidimensional weakly coupled map lattices. These include piecewise expanding maps with diffusive coupling. The essential part of this research was done during an ESF explorative workshop at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn. We thank both institutions for their support.     

Regularity of SRB Entropy for Geometric Lorenz Attractors

Journal of Statistical Physics - We consider the classical geometric Lorenz attractors, showing that the SRB entropy admits $$\gamma $$ -Hölder continuity for any $$0&lt;\gamma &lt;1$$ .