Doubly intermittent full branch maps with critical points and singularities (Q6116807)

This paper considers a class of interval maps with two full branches, indifferent fixed endpoints, and no restriction on the value of the derivative at the branch boundary. The class includes the Manneville-Pomeau maps in [\textit{Y. Pomeau} and \textit{P. Manneville}, Commun. Math. Phys. 74, No. 2, 189--197 (1980; \url{doi:10.1007/BF01197757})], the Liverani-Saussol-Vaienti maps in [\textit{C. Liverani} et al., Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 19, No. 3, 671--685 (1999; Zbl 0988.37035)] and maps studied by \textit{A. S. Pikovsky} [Phys. Rev. A 43, No. 6, 3146--3148 (1991; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.43.3146})]. For maps in the considered class, the authors prove the existence of a unique absolutely continuous invariant measure which is \(\sigma\)-finite and equivalent to Lebesgue measure. Under an additional condition on a map \(g\) in the class, they show the existence of a unique ergodic invariant probability measure \(\mu_g\) absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. Note that \(\mu_g\) satisfies the Pesin entropy formula and the authors show when \(\mu_g\) is exponentially mixing (exponential decay of correlations) and polynomially mixing (polynomial decay of correlations), giving the mixing rate. Some limit theorems are also proven. Their work begins with the construction of an induced full branch Gibbs-Markov map (Young tower), but with two indifferent fixed points the inducing domain they use is different from the usual inducing domains and requires a more involved double inducing procedure.