On the regular representation of measures

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Abstract: We give sufficient conditions for a parametrised family of probability measures on a Riemannian manifold with boundary to be represented by random maps of class Ck. The conditions allow for the probability densities to approach zero towards the boundary of the manifold. We also formulate two obstructions to regular representability.


This paper concerns the problem of existence of a regular representation of probability measures which arises from the Ergodic theory specially in the study of stochastic stability of dynamical systems. Let \(M\) be a compact, oriented, and connected Riemannian manifold of class \(C^{k+2}, k\geq1, \) with boundary \(\partial M\) and let \(\bar{\mu}=\{ \mu_x\}_{x \in X}\) be a family of probability measures, parameterized by a compact Riemannian manifold \(X\) of class \(C^{k}\), that are absolutely continuous with respect to the volume measure on \(X \times M\) with densities \(\rho (\cdot, \cdot)\) of class \(C^k\) that are positive on the interior of \(M\) and satisfy some necessary assumptions on the decay towards the boundary \(\partial M\). Suppose \(\Omega\) is \(M\) or a subset of it and \(\Omega = (\Omega, P )\) is a Rochlin-Lebesgue probability space and there exists a constant \(C >0\) such that for every \(\omega \in \Omega \), the \(C^k\)-seminorm of the map \(x \mapsto T (x, \omega)\) is bounded by \(C\). The representation of the family \(\bar{\mu}\) is a measurable mapping \(T: X \times \Omega \to M\) such that \(\mu_x = T (X, \cdot)_{*} \mathbb{P}\) for each \(x \in X\), where \(T (X, \cdot)_{*} \mathbb{P}\) denotes the push forward of \(P\) by \(T (x, \cdot)\). Under these assumptions, the authors proved the existence of a representation such that the maps \(T(\cdot, \omega)\) are \(C^k\)-regular, uniformaly in \(\omega\). More precisely, there exists a family of piecewise \(C^k\)- maps \(T_x : M \to M\), such that \((T_x)_{*}\mu= \mu_x\), and a \(C^k\)-norm of \(x \mapsto T_x(m)\) is uniformly bounded in \(m \in M\). Furthermore, there were obtained the obstructions to bounded Lipschitz and \(C^k\) -representability.











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