On the rate of mixing of circle extensions of Anosov maps

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Abstract: We study circle extensions of analytic Anosov maps on the two torus: these are examples of partially hyperbolic maps for which the qualitative ergodic theory is well understood. In this paper we investigate rates of mixing (for the SRB measure) and prove explicit lower bounds involving the topological pressure of two times the unstable Jacobian. In particular we study the case when the extension function ("roof function") is given by a random trigonometric polynomial.


Let \(\mathbb{T}^{2}=\mathbb{R}^{2}/\mathbb{Z}^{2}\) be the usual flat torus. Let \(A:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{S}^2\) be an Anosov diffeomorphism which is topologically mixing. Let \(\tau:\mathbb{T}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a smooth map. The author defines an \(S^1\)-extension of \(A\) as \(\widehat{A}_{\tau}:\mathbb{T}^2\times S^1 \rightarrow \mathbb{T}^2\times S^1\), where \(S^1:=\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}\) is the circle. By using transfer operators on anisotropic Hilbert spaces, the author studies the possible rates of exponential mixing by exhibiting some explicit lower bounds on the decay rate. The author proves that while the map \(M\) itself mixes at super-exponential decay rate for all analytic observables, there exists (at least rapidly mixing) extensions \(\widehat{M}_{\tau}\) and analytic observables whose rate of mixing is not faster than \((0, 618)^n\). Under some conditions, the author shows that the extension \(\widehat{A}_{\tau}\) is rapidly mixing for the Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measure on \(\mathbb{T}^2\times S^1\). The author investigates properties of the anisotropic function space \(\mathcal{H}_{r,M}\) and the spectral properties of certain twisted transfer operators \(\mathcal{L}_q\) acting on this space.











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