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Diffeomorphisms with positive metric entropy

Dynamical Systems 2017-09-20 v5

Abstract

We obtain a dichotomy for C1C^1-generic, volume-preserving diffeomorphisms: either all the Lyapunov exponents of almost every point vanish or the volume is ergodic and non-uniformly Anosov (i.e. nonuniformly hyperbolic and the splitting into stable and unstable spaces is dominated). This completes a program first put forth by Ricardo Ma\~n\'e.

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@article{arxiv.1408.4252,
  title  = {Diffeomorphisms with positive metric entropy},
  author = {Artur Avila and Sylvain Crovisier and Amie Wilkinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4252},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures. The original arXiv submission has been split into two parts, this new version corresponds to the first part. The second part will be available as "$C^1$ density of stable ergodicity", arXiv:1709.04983

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