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Entropy and volume growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2000

KURT COGSWELL
Affiliation:
Harding Hall 112, S.D.S.U., Brookings, S.D. 57007, USA (e-mail: kurt_cogswell@sdstate.edu)

Abstract

We consider a $C^{1+1}$ diffeomorphism $f$ of a compact manifold $M$ which preserves an ergodic probability measure $\mu$. We conclude that $\mu$-a.e. $x \in M$ is contained in a disk $D_x \subset W^u(x)$, with $D_x$ open in the $W^u(x)$ topology, which exhibits an exponential volume growth rate greater than or equal to the measure-theoretic entropy of $f$ with respect to $\mu$. Drawing on results of Newhouse and Yomdin, we then find that when $f$ is $C^\infty$ and $\mu$ is a measure of maximal entropy, this exponential volume growth rate equals the topological entropy of $f$ for $\mu$-a.e. $x$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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