Multidimensional local central limit theorem of some non-uniformly hyperbolic systems (Q1034280)

A nonuniformly hyperbolic system originally studied by Lai-Sang Young is further investigated in this paper. The setting includes a compact Riemannian manifold \(X\) with boundary, a \(C^{1+\varepsilon}\) diffeomorphism \(T\) with singularities on \(X\), and a Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measure corresponding to the system \((X,T)\). The author's main result is that if the components of a Hölder observable \(f: X\to \mathbb{R}^d\) are cohomologously independent, then \(f\) satisfies the multidimensional central limit theorem. Furthermore, the author also proves that if \(f\) is aperiodic, then \(f\) satisfies the local multidimensional central limit theorem. The author first establishes that it is sufficiently to prove the result for so-called Young towers. He then introduces a Perron-Frobenius transfer operator \(P\) and shows that it has the so-called Doeblin-Fortet property. The Fourier transform \(P_t\) of \(P\) is continuous with respect to \(t\), and the author proves a Nagaev estimate for \(P_t\). Finally, he uses spectral methods to establish the central limit theorem.