Singular-hyperbolic attractors are chaotic

Araujo, V.; Pacifico, M.; Pujals, E.; Viana, M.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04595-9

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Singular-hyperbolic attractors are chaotic

Authors: V. Araujo, M. J. Pacifico, E. R. Pujals and M. Viana
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), 2431-2485
MSC (2000): Primary 37C10; Secondary 37C40, 37D30
Posted: December 3, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2471925
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Abstract: We prove that a singular-hyperbolic attractor of a -dimensional flow is chaotic, in two different strong senses. First, the flow is expansive: if two points remain close at all times, possibly with time reparametrization, then their orbits coincide. Second, there exists a physical (or Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen) measure supported on the attractor whose ergodic basin covers a full Lebesgue (volume) measure subset of the topological basin of attraction. Moreover this measure has absolutely continuous conditional measures along the center-unstable direction, is a -Gibbs state and is an equilibrium state for the logarithm of the Jacobian of the time one map of the flow along the strong-unstable direction.

This extends to the class of singular-hyperbolic attractors the main elements of the ergodic theory of uniformly hyperbolic (or Axiom A) attractors for flows.

In particular these results can be applied (i) to the flow defined by the Lorenz equations, (ii) to the geometric Lorenz flows, (iii) to the attractors appearing in the unfolding of certain resonant double homoclinic loops, (iv) in the unfolding of certain singular cycles and (v) in some geometrical models which are singular-hyperbolic but of a different topological type from the geometric Lorenz models. In all these cases the results show that these attractors are expansive and have physical measures which are -Gibbs states.

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