Weak Gibbs measures for certain non-hyperbolic systems (Q4520558)

The paper is devoted to a generalized thermodynamic formalism for maps defined on a subset of a compact metric space which exhibit certain non-hyperbolic phenomena. Let \((X,{\mathcal F},\nu)\) be a non-atomic probability space and \(T:X\to X\) be a nonsingular transformation with respect to \(\nu\). Using symbolic dynamics a weak Gibbs measure for potentials of weak bounded variation is defined. There is a \(T\)-invariant exact measure \(\mu\sim \nu\). A criterion of finiteness of \(\mu\) in terms of weak bounded variation (WBV) and an exact estimate of the density of \(\mu\) with respect to the weak Gibbs measure \(\nu\) is given. These results play the key role in the proof of the establishing the weak Gibbs property of \(\mu\). It is shown that several piecewise \(C^1\)-smooth maps of which \(-\log |DT|\) are potentials of WBV and absolutely continuous finite invariant measures (with respect to Lebesgue measure) are weak Gibbs. In addition, for these examples all conditions in the theorem are verified. The lower and upper pointwise dimensions of \(\mu\) are estimated, this allows to get an estimate of the Hausdorff dimension of the set of forward generic points. In particular, these results are applied to non-conformal parabolic repeller arising from Brun's map which admits indifferent fixed points. Statistical properties of the weak Gibbs measure \(\mu\) are studied. More exactly, the author establishes the uniform convergence of the iterated Perron-Frobenius operators with respect to the weak Gibbs measure \(\mu\) in the \(L^\infty\)-norm and gives an upper bound on the convergence in the \(L^1\)-norm. In the appendix of the paper a relation between the Gibbs property for the derived systems \((T^\ast, \mu^\ast)\) and the weak Gibbs property for the original system \((T,\mu)\) is studied.