On the variational principle for a class of skew product transformations (Q6942677)

This paper establishes a variational principle between the fiber Bowen's topological entropy on conditional level sets of Birkhoff average and fiber measure-theoretical entropy. They consider the skew product transformation driven by a uniquely ergodic homeomorphism system satisfying Anosov and topological mixing on fibers property. It is proved by using a fiber specification property. They show that such skew product transformations has the specification property defined by \textit{V. M. Gundlach} and \textit{Yu. Kifer} [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 6, No. 1, 89--120 (2000; Zbl 1009.37038)]. The prove that every Hölder continuous potential has a unique equilibrium state and establish a variational principle between the fiber measure-theoretic entropy and the fiber Bowen's topological entropy on conditional level sets of local entropy for such unique equilibrium state. Examples of systems under consideration are given, such as fiber Anosov maps on 2-dimension tori driven by any irrational rotation on circle, and random composition of \(2\times 2\) area-preserving positive matrices driven by a uniquely ergodic subshift.