Inducing schemes for multi-dimensional piecewise expanding maps

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We construct inducing schemes for general multi-dimensional piecewise expanding maps where the base transformation is Gibbs-Markov and the return times have exponential tails. Such structures are a crucial tool in proving statistical properties of dynamical systems with some hyperbolicity. As an application we check the conditions for the first return map of a class of multi-dimensional non-Markov, non-conformal intermittent maps.</p>