Slow and fast escape for open intermittent maps (Q521164)

An open dynamical system in the setting of a measure-preserving dynamical system \(T:(X,\nu)\to(X,\nu)\) is obtained by removing a measurable set \(H\) from the space and studying iterates of the map \(T^o\) defined on \(X^o=X\setminus H\) defined by removing points that fall into the `hole' \(H\) under iteration. A notion of conditionally invariant measures provides a suitable analogue of invariant measure here, and the work of the first author and \textit{L.-S. Young} [Nonlinearity 19, No. 2, 377--397 (2006; Zbl 1134.37322)] shows that there may be many such measures absolutely continuous with respect to \(\nu\). Under strong hyperbolicity assumptions then there are reasonable hypotheses on \(H\) that give rise to a unique physically meaningful invariant measure. Here a family of Manneville-Pomeau maps on the interval with indifferent fixed point at \(0\) are studied, and three different regimes on behaviour for resulting open dynamical systems are found, expressed in terms of the Hausdorff dimension of the so-called `survivor set' of points that avoid falling into the hole. The tools used to analyse the possibilities are the Young tower and spectral methods for transfer operators.