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- From: anq@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Anthony Quas)
- Subject: Expanding Maps
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:42:12 GMT
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- I am considering the problem of expanding maps from the circle to itself.
- For f to be expanding, I mean that f is C^1 and |f'(x)| >= K >1 for all x
- in S^1. Such maps may be "lifted" to the interval, where they become
- piecewise expanding, once-differentiable maps of the interval, whose
- branches map onto the whole interval.
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- If the map f is C^2 or even C^(1+\alpha) (i.e. its derivative is Hoelder
- continuous), then it is known, using the theory of Lasota-Yorke and others
- that the map has an Absolutely Continuous Invariant Probability Measure
- (ACIPM) (with respect to Lebesgue measure) and that this measure is unique.
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- In the case where the map is C^1, there need not be an ACIPM, as shown
- in the paper of Gora and Schmitt in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
- (1988?).
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- I am interested in the case where the map is C^1 and preserves Lebsegue
- measure. The question which I want to answer is whether this probability
- measure is unique (i.e. whether in that case, Lebsegue measure is ergodic).
-
- I have some partial results. These are the following:
- For C^0 maps, expanding can be defined that all sufficiently small distances
- are expanded by a factor uniformly bounded below by some K>1. One can then
- ask if a C^0 expanding map of the circle which preserves Lebesgue measure
- can have more than 1 ACIPM. The answer to this is yes, it may have more
- than 1 ACIPM. My example has a Cantor set C of positive measure such that
- f(C) is contained in C. I have shown that this cannot arise for C^1 maps.
- I would be happy to show the proofs to anyone interested.
-
- I should be extremely interested to hear of any comments or suggestions
- which people may have with this problem, as I am fairly stuck with it.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Anthony Quas anq@maths.warwick.ac.uk
- Maths Institute
- University of Warwick
- Coventry CV4 7AL
- ENGLAND
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