SRB measures for certain class of non-uniformly hyperbolic endomorphisms on the solid torus

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence and ergodic properties of non-hyperbolic attracting sets with SRB measures for a class of smooth endomorphisms on the solid torus, using skew product systems and iterated function systems.

Contribution

It establishes the existence, uniqueness, and ergodic properties of non-hyperbolic attractors with SRB measures for certain endomorphisms, extending understanding of their statistical behavior.

Findings

Existence of unique non-hyperbolic attracting invariant graphs.

Systems are Bernoulli and mixing.

Properties are stable under small perturbations.

Abstract

In this paper we address the existence and ergodicity of non-hyperbolic attracting sets for a certain class of smooth endomorphisms on the solid torus. Such systems allow a formulation as a skew product system defined by planar diffeomorphisms have contraction on average which forced by any expanding circle map. These attractors are invariant graphs of upper semicontinuous maps which support exactly one $SRB$ measure. In our approach, these skew product systems arising from iterated function systems generated by a finitely many weak contractive diffeomorphisms. Under some conditions including negative fiber Lyapunov exponents, we prove the existence of unique non-hyperbolic attracting invariant graphs for these systems which attract positive orbits of almost all initial points. Also, we prove that these systems are Bernoulli and therefore they are mixing. Moreover, these properties remain true under small perturbations in the space of endomorphisms on the solid torus.