Open sets of partially hyperbolic skew products having a unique SRB measure (Q6156542)

The author obtains \(C^2\)-open sets of dissipative, partially hyperbolic skew products having a unique Sinai-Bowen-Ruelle measure with full support and full basin. These partially hyperbolic systems have a two-dimensional center bundle which has both expansion and contraction but does not admit any further dominated splitting of the center. These systems are nonconservative perturbations of an example introduced in [\textit{P. Berger} and \textit{P. D. Carrasco}, Commun. Math. Phys. 329, No. 1, 239--262 (2014; Zbl 1350.37032)]. The proof of the existence of Sinai-Bowen-Ruelle measures for these perturbations is obtained through a general measure rigidity result for u-Gibbs measures for partially hyperbolic skew products. This general result is an adaptation to the partially hyperbolic setting of a measure rigidity result from [\textit{A. Brown} and \textit{F. Rodriguez Hertz}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 30, No. 4, 1055--1132 (2017; Zbl 1379.37055)].