Equilibrium measures for maps with inducing schemes

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Abstract: We introduce a class of continuous maps f of a compact metric space I admitting inducing schemes and describe the tower constructions associated with them. We then establish a thermodynamical formalism, i.e., describe a class of real-valued potential functions phi on I which admit unique equilibrium measures mu_phi minimizing the free energy for a certain class of measures. We also describe ergodic properties of equilibrium measures including decay of correlation and the Central Limit Theorem. Our results apply in particular to some one-dimensional unimodal and multimodal maps as well as to multidimensional nonuniformly hyperbolic maps admitting Young's tower. Examples of potential functions to which our theory applies include phi_t=-tlog|df| with tin(t_0, t_1) for some t_0<1<t_1. In the particular case of S-unimodal maps we show that one can choose t_0<0 and that the class of measures under consideration comprises all invariant Borel probability measures. Thus our results establish existence and uniqueness of both the measure of maximal entropy (by a different method than Hofbauer) and the absolutely continuous invariant measure extending results by Bruin and Keller for the parameters under consideration.


The paper introduces a class of continuous maps \(f\) of a compact topological space \(I\) admitting inducing schemes and describes the tower constructions associated with them. For these maps, a thermodynamic formalism is established, i.e., a class of real-valued potential functions \(\varphi\) on \(I\), which admit a unique equilibrium measure \(\mu_\varphi\) minimizing the free energy for a certain class of invariant measures, is described. The paper describes also certain ergodic properties of equilibrium measures, including decay of correlation and the Central Limit Theorem. The results obtained are applied to certain interval maps with critical points and/or singularities (including some unimodal and multimodal maps) and to potential functions of the form \(\varphi_t=-t\log|df|\) with \(t\in (t_0,t_1)\) for some \(t_0<1<t_1\). In the particular case of \(S\)-unimodal maps, it is shown that one can choose \(t_0<0\) and that the class of measures under consideration consists of all invariant Borel probability measures.




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