Statistical properties of mostly contracting fast-slow partially hyperbolic systems (Q730187)

It is well known that the topological and statistical properties for uniformly hyperbolic systems have been well investigated. However, when one considers partially hyperbolic systems that are almost periodic, things become much more complicated. The authors consider a class of \({C}^{4}\) partially hyperbolic systems on \({\mathbb T}^2\) described by maps \(F_\varepsilon (x,\theta )=(f(x,\theta ),\theta +\varepsilon \omega (x,\theta ))\) where \(f(\cdot ,\theta )\) are expanding maps of the circle. For sufficiently small \(\varepsilon\) and \(\omega\) generic in an open set, they classify the SRB measures for \(F_\varepsilon\) and their statistical properties, including exponential decay of correlation for Hölder observables with explicit and nearly optimal bounds on the decay rate.