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Hitting and escaping statistics: mixing, targets and holes

Dynamical Systems 2018-01-08 v2

Abstract

There is a natural connection between two types of recurrence law: hitting times to shrinking targets, and hitting times to a fixed target (usually seen as escape through a hole). We show that for systems which mix exponentially fast, one can move through a natural parameter space from one to the other. On the other hand, if the mixing is subexponential, there is a phase transition between the hitting times law and the escape law.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01196,
  title  = {Hitting and escaping statistics: mixing, targets and holes},
  author = {Henk Bruin and Mark F. Demers and Mike Todd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01196},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages. To appear in Advances in Mathematics

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