Stably ergodic dynamical systems and partial hyperbolicity

DOI10.1006/JCOM.1997.0437MaRDI QIDQ1361882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Shub, Charles Pugh

Publication date 29 March 1998

Published in Journal of Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a094fa2483b46ae2d1be096d5e4befd34004155c

zbMATH Keywords

Anosov systems geodesic flow invariant bundles stably ergodic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory (37A99) Dynamical systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D99)

Review text

The authors study partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms \(f:M \to M\) of a compact, connected, boundaryless manifold \(M\). A diffeomorphism \(f\) is partially hyperbolic if \(Tf:TM\to TM\) leaves invariant a continuous splitting \(TM= E^u \oplus E^c \oplus E^s\), where \(Tf\) expands \(E^u\), \(Tf\) contracts \(E^s\) and \(\forall p\in M\) \(\sup |T_pf |_{E^s} |< \inf m(T_p |_{E^c})\) and \(\sup|T_p f|_{E^c} |< \inf m(T_p f|_{E^u})\), where \(m(T)= \inf \{|T\nu|:|\nu |= 1\}\). Subbundles \((E,F)\) are said to have the accessibility property if every pair of points in \(M\) can be joined by a piecewise \(C^1\) path. It is said that a diffeomorphism \(f\) has sufficiently Hölder invariant bundles if the Hölder exponents of the bundles \(E^u\), \(E^c\), \(E^s\) are greater than some constant, depending on \(\dim M\), and satisfying certain conditions. If the spectra of \(T^uf\), \(T^cf\) and \(T^sf\) lie in thin, well separated annuli, it is said that \(f\) has a bunched spectrum. Some main results of the paper: 1. If a \(C^2\), volume preserving diffeomorphism \(f:M \to M\) is partially hyperbolic, dynamically coherent, has the essential accessibility property, and its invariant bundles are sufficiently Hölder, then \(f\) is ergodic. 2. If in addition to the preceding conditions \(f\) has the accessibility property, the invariant bundles of \(f\) are \(C^1\), and the spectrum of \(Tf\) is sufficiently bunched, then \(f\) is stably ergodic, i.e., \(f\) is ergodic and so is every volume preserving diffeomorphism of \(M\) that \(C^2\) approximates it. 3. The time-one map of the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle \(M\) of a compact Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature is stably ergodic.

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