Decay of correlations, quantitative recurrence and logarithm law for contracting Lorenz attractors (Q1753256)

To investigate some statistical properties of a class of dynamical systems, the authors consider the perspective of studying the evolution of measures and its speed of convergence to equilibrium. In general, a logarithm law relates the hitting time to small targets to the local dimension of the physical measure. For this purpose, the authors select a family of dynamical systems which has been studied in [\textit{A. Rovella}, Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat., Nova Sér. 24, No. 2, 233--259 (1993; Zbl 0797.58051)]. To achieve their goals, they show that a class of skew products maps with nonuniformly hyperbolic basis has exponential decay of correlations. To do this, the authors introduce a contracting Lorenz flow as the main object of interest. They obtain a logarithm law for the hitting time associated to a contracting Lorenz attractor at all the points having a well-defined local dimension, and a quantitative recurrence estimation. The authors recall some general results on convergence and correlation decay for skew-products with contracting fibers (see [\textit{V. Araújo} et al., Math. Z. 276, No. 3--4, 1001--1048 (2014; Zbl 1337.37019)]). The authors also establish the exponential decay of correlations with respect to Lipschitz observables for the two-dimensional map associated with the contracting Lorenz flow. Moreover, they show how to extend some results about decay of correlations and convergence to equilibrium for Hölder observables to generalized bounded variation observables. Finally, the authors find results about the linearization of the Poincaré map associated with the Lorenz flow.