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Existence and smoothness of the stable foliation for sectional hyperbolic attractors

Dynamical Systems 2017-12-06 v2

Abstract

We prove the existence of a contracting invariant topological foliation in a full neighborhood for partially hyperbolic attractors. Under certain bunching conditions it can then be shown that this stable foliation is smooth. Specialising to sectional hyperbolic attractors, we give a verifiable condition for bunching. In particular, we show that the stable foliation for the classical Lorenz equation (and nearby vector fields) is better than C1C^1 which is crucial for recent results on exponential decay of correlations. In fact the foliation is at least C1.278C^{1.278}.

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@article{arxiv.1604.06924,
  title  = {Existence and smoothness of the stable foliation for sectional hyperbolic attractors},
  author = {V. Araújo and I. Melbourne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06924},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Corrected estimate for smoothness of stable foliation. Clarification of which results hold for general partially hyperbolic attractors. Some minor typos fixed. Accepted for publication in Bull. London Math. Soc