Maximizing entropy measures for random dynamical systems

Abstract

We prove the existence of relative maximal entropy measures for certain random dynamical systems of the type [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is an invertibe map preserving an ergodic measure [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a local diffeomorphism of a compact Riemannian manifold exhibiting some non-uniform expansion. As a consequence of our proofs, we obtain an integral formula for the relative topological entropy as the integral of the logarithm of the topological degree of [Formula: see text] with respect to [Formula: see text]. When [Formula: see text] is topologically exact and the supremum of the topological degree of [Formula: see text] is finite, the maximizing measure is unique and positive on open sets.