Continuity properties of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (Q2084781): Difference between revisions

The paper deals with the discontinuity properties of the entropy and Lyapunov exponents of invariant measures \(\mu\) for smooth surface diffeomorphisms \(f\), as functions of \({(f,\mu)}.\) One of the main theorems is a new result on the existence of SRB measures with positive entropy. Namely, let \(f\) be a \({C^\infty}\) diffeomorphism of a compact surface without boundary. If there exist ergodic invariant probability measures \(\nu_k\), with entropy uniformly bounded away from zero, and such that the unstable dimension \(\delta^u(\nu_k)\to1,\) then \(f\) admits an ergodic SRB measure.