Uniqueness of SRB measures for transitive diffeomorphisms on surfaces (Q635834): Difference between revisions

An SRB measure introduced by Sinai, Ruelle and Bowen in the 70's is an invariant measure that has a positive Lyapunov exponent a.e. and the decomposition of the measure along the unstable manifold is equivalent to the volume. The authors define ergodic homoclinic classes for hyperbolic periodic points which are ``ergodic'' versions of homoclinic classes and prove that ergodic components of hyperbolic measures are in fact ergodic homoclinic classes.