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Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces with positive entropy

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

Given a surface MM and a Borel probability measure ν\nu on the group of C2C^2-diffeomorphisms of MM, we study ν\nu-stationary probability measures on MM. Assuming the positivity of a certain entropy, the following dichotomy is proved: either the stable distributions for the random dynamics is non-random, or the measure is SRB. In the case that ν\nu-a.e. diffeomorphism preserves a common smooth measure mm, we show that for any positive-entropy stationary measure μ\mu, either there exists a ν\nu-almost surely invariant μ\mu-measurable line field (corresponding do the stable distributions for almost every random composition) or the measure μ\mu is ν\nu-almost surely invariant and coincides with an ergodic component of mm. To prove the above result, we introduce a skew product with surface fibers over a measure preserving transformation equipped with an increasing sub-σ\sigma-algebra F^\hat F. Given an invariant measure μ\mu for the skew product, and assuming the F^\hat F-measurability of the `past dynamics' and the fiber-wise conditional measures, we prove a dichotomy: either the fiber-wise stable distributions are measurable with respect to a related increasing sub-σ\sigma-algebra, or the measure μ\mu is fiber-wise SRB.

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@article{arxiv.1406.7201,
  title  = {Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces with positive entropy},
  author = {Aaron W. Brown and Federico Rodriguez Hertz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7201},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

The results in this paper are superseded by those in arXiv:1506.06826; this version will be kept as a preprint

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