Equilibrium states for piecewise monotonic transformations

Abstract

AbstractWe show that equilibrium states μ of a function φ on ([0,1], T), where T is piecewise monotonic, have strong ergodic properties in the following three cases:(i) sup φ — inf φ <htop(T) and φ is of bounded variation.(ii) φ satisfies a variation condition and T has a local specification property.(iii) φ = —log |T′|, which gives an absolutely continuous μ, T is C2, the orbits of the critical points of T are finite, and all periodic orbits of T are uniformly repelling.