Hitting time and dimension in axiom A systems, generic interval exchanges and an application to Birkoff sums (Q2494505)

The main result of the paper states that in nontrivial nice examples such as Axiom A systems with positive measure dimension and typical interval exchanges transformations, the hitting time indicator equals almost everywhere the local dimension \(d_{\mu}(x)\) of the measure considered. From this it follows that in such systems, for typical \(x\) and \(y\), \[ \tau_{B(x,r)}(y)\sim r^{-d(x)}, \] where \(\tau_{B(x,r)}(y)\) is the time needed for the point \(y\) to enter in the ball \(B(x,r)\) with center \(x\) and radius \(r\). As an application of these results, an estimate on the Birkhoff averages of functions having some asymptote and no \(L^1\) norm is obtained. Namely, the hitting time indicator gives an estimation about the going to infinity speed of such average. Since the hitting time is related to local dimension, this speed can be related also to the local dimension of the invariant measure at the point where the asymptote is.