Statistical stability for Barge-Martin attractors derived from tent maps (Q2306873)

\textit{M. Barge} and \textit{J. Martin} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 110, No. 2, 523--525 (1990; Zbl 0714.58036)] described how to embed inverse limits of continuous interval maps as attractors of planar homeomorphisms. Let \(\{f_t\}_{t \in (1,2]}\) denote the family of core tent maps of slope \(t\). The Barge-Martin construction gives a continuously varying family of homeomorphisms \(\Phi_t\) of the disk with transitive global attractors \(\Lambda_t\) such that \(\Phi_t\) is topologically conjugate to the natural extension of \(f_t\) [\textit{P. Boyland} et al., Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 45, No. 5, 1075--1085 (2013; Zbl 1281.54013)]. The family of unique absolutely continuous invariant measures for the \(f_t\)'s leads to a family of ergodic \(\Phi_t\)-invariant measures \(\nu_t\) supported on the \(\Lambda_t\)'s. The present authors prove that the family \(\nu_t\) varies weakly continuously. Furthermore, they show that the \(\nu_t\)'s are physical measures by using their construction presented in [the authors, ``Natural extensions of unimodal maps: virtual sphere homeomorphisms and prime ends of basin boundaries'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1704.06624}].