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From Rates of mixing to recurrence times via large deviations

Dynamical Systems 2012-09-14 v1

Abstract

A classic approach in dynamical systems is to use particular geometric structures to deduce statistical properties, for example the existence of invariant measures with stochastic-like behaviour such as large deviations or decay of correlations. Such geometric structures are generally highly non-trivial and thus a natural question is the extent to which this approach can be applied. In this paper we show that in many cases stochastic-like behaviour itself implies that the system has certain non-trivial geometric properties, which are therefore necessary as well as sufficient conditions for the occurrence of the statistical properties under consideration. As a by product of our techniques we also obtain some new results on large deviations for certain classes of systems which include Viana maps and multidimensional piecewise expanding maps.

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@article{arxiv.1007.3771,
  title  = {From Rates of mixing to recurrence times via large deviations},
  author = {José F. Alves and Jorge Milhazes Freitas and Stefano Luzzatto and Sandro Vaienti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3771},
  year   = {2012}
}