SRB measures for a class of partially hyperbolic attractors in Hilbert spaces (Q281682)

The authors study the SRB measures of hyperbolic and uniformly partially hyperbolic attractors of a \(C^2\) map \(f\) in a separable Hilbert space \(\mathbb{H}\) having a compact attractor \(\Lambda\) such that \(f\) and its Fréchet derivative \(Df_x\) are injective for all \(x\in \Lambda\) and such that the following holds \[ \kappa(x):=\limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty} \frac{1} {n} \log \|Df^n_x\|_{\kappa}<0. \] (Recall that, for a linear operator \(T\), \(\|T\|_{\kappa}\) is defined to be the infimum of the set of numbers \(r> 0\) such that \(T(B)\), \(B\) being the unit ball, can be covered by a finite number of balls of radius \(r\).) These assumptions imply that there are at most finitely many non-negative Lyapunov exponents, allowing suitable definitions of SRB measures and observable sets using the Lebesgue measure along the unstable manifolds. The authors prove the following theorem: {\parindent=8mm \begin{itemize}\item[(i)] If \(f|_{\Lambda}\) is partially hyperbolic, then there exists at least one SRB measure. \item[(ii)] There are at most countably many ergodic hyperbolic SRB measures whose supports are contained in \(\Lambda\). \item[(iii)] If \(f|_{\Lambda}\) is uniformly hyperbolic, topologically mixing and the splitting is Hölder continuous on \(\Lambda\), then there exists a unique SRB measure which is mixing. \item[(iv)] If \(f|_{\Lambda}\) is uniformly hyperbolic, non-wandering, and the splitting is Hölder continuous on \(\Lambda\), then there are finitely many ergodic SRB measures. \item[(v)] For a given hyperbolic SRB measure \(\mu\), up to a \(\mu\)-null set, there exist at most countably many ergodic attractors, \((K_i, \nu_i)\), whose basin \(K'_i\) contains an observable set and \(\nu_i\) is the normalization of \(\mu|_{K_i}\). \end{itemize}}