The structure of the space of ergodic measures of transitive partially hyperbolic sets (Q2329131)

The authors study the structure of the space of ergodic measures of a family of step skew products. These examples have differentiable realizations as partially hyperbolic sets with one-dimensional central direction. There are saddles whose homoclinic classes coincide and are equivalent to the disjoint union of two invariant sets: an exposed set \(\Lambda_{ex}\) (a compact set that is a topological horseshoe) which is poorly homoclinically related with the rest and a core set \(\Lambda_{core}\) with rich homoclinic relations. The authors show that ergodic measures are either supported on the exposed set or on the core set and these sets glue along nonhyperbolic measures. The article also contains a discussion on measures of maximal entropy, including examples where the measure of maximal entropy is nonhyperbolic.