Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces and related skew products

Brown, Aaron; Hertz, Federico

doi:10.1090/jams/877

Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces and related skew products

Authors: Aaron Brown and Federico Rodriguez Hertz
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (2017), 1055-1132
MSC (2010): Primary 37C40, 37H99; Secondary 37E30, 37D25, 28D15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/877
Published electronically: March 7, 2017
MathSciNet review: 3671937
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Abstract: Given a surface $M$ and a Borel probability measure $\nu$ on the group of $C^2$-diffeomorphisms of $M$ we study $\nu$-stationary probability measures on $M$. We prove for hyperbolic stationary measures the following trichotomy: the stable distributions are non-random, the measure is SRB, or the measure is supported on a finite set and is hence almost-surely invariant. In the proof of the above results, we study skew products with surface fibers over a measure-preserving transformation equipped with a decreasing sub-$\sigma$-algebra $\hat {\mathcal F}$ and derive a related result. A number of applications of our main theorem are presented.

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