Singularities of the susceptibility of a Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measure in the presence of stable-unstable tangencies

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Abstract: Let ho be an SRB (or "physical"), measure for the discrete time evolution given by a map f, and let ho(A) denote the expectation value of a smooth function A. If f depends on a parameter, the derivative deltaho(A) of ho(A) with respect to the parameter is formally given by the value of the so-called susceptibility function Psi(z) at z=1. When f is a uniformly hyperbolic diffeomorphism, it has been proved that the power series Psi(z) has a radius of convergence r(Psi)>1, and that deltaho(A)=Psi(1), but it is known that r(Psi)<1 in some other cases. One reason why f may fail to be uniformly hyperbolic is if there are tangencies between the stable and unstable manifolds for (f,ho). The present paper gives a crude, nonrigorous, analysis of this situation in terms of the Hausdorff dimension d of ho in the stable direction. We find that the tangencies produce singularities of Psi(z) for |z|<1 if d<1/2, but only for |z|>1 if d>1/2. In particular, if d>1/2 we may hope that Psi(1) makes sense, and the derivative deltaho(A)=Psi(1) has thus a chance to be defined









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