Rare events for Cantor target sets (Q778808)

The authors introduce a framework for the study of rare events of dynamical systems and formulate general results providing conditions in order to obtain the existence of limiting laws. Then they introduce the observables maximised on the ternary Cantor set, define the dynamical models and state their main results. They use, as main ingredient, a general theorem establishing the existence of a limiting law in the presence of clustering, for general dynamically defined Cantor sets and for compatible dynamics. Finally, they present a numerical simulation to illustrate the suitability of the use of the extremal index as an indicator of the compatibility between the dynamics and the geometrical fractal structure of the maximal set.