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Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisims with a finite number of measures of maximal entropy

Dynamical Systems 2025-02-27 v2

Abstract

We prove the finiteness of ergodic measures of maximal entropy for partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms where the center direction has a dominated decomposition into one dimensional bundle and there is a uniform lower bound for the absolute value of the Lyapunov exponents. As applications we prove finiteness for a class derived from Anosov partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms defined on T4\mathbb{T}^4 and that in a class of skew product over partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms there exists a C1C^1 open and CrC^r dense set of diffeomorphisms with a finite number of ergodic measures of maximal entropy. We also study the upper semicontinuity of the number of measures of maximal entropy with respect to the diffeomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.2502.17385,
  title  = {Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisims with a finite number of measures of maximal entropy},
  author = {Juan Carlos Mongez and Maria José Pacifico and Mauricio Poletti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17385},
  year   = {2025}
}