Path connectedness and entropy density of the space of ergodic hyperbolic measures
Path connectedness and entropy density of the space of ergodic hyperbolic measures
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遍历双曲测度空间的路径连通性和熵密度
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2015
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Y. Pesin
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A. Gorodetski;Y. Pesin
We show that the space of hyperbolic ergodic measures of a given index supported on an isolated homoclinic class is path connected and entropy dense provided that any two hyperbolic periodic points in this class are ho- moclinically related. As a corollary we obtain that the closure of this space is also path connected. In this paper we consider homoclinic classes of periodic points for C 1+α dif- feomorphisms of compact manifolds and we discuss two properties of the space of invariant measures supported on them and equipped with the week � -topology - connectedness and entropy density of the subspace of hyperbolic ergodic measures. The study of connectedness of the latter space was initiated by Sigmund in a short article (27). He established path connectedness of this space in the case of tran- sitive topological Markov shifts and as a corollary, of Axiom A diffeomorphisms. Sigmund's idea was to show first that any two periodic measures (i.e., invariant atomic measures on periodic points) can be connected by a continuous path of er- godic measures and second that if one of the two periodic measures lies in a small neighborhood of another one, then the whole path can be chosen to lie in this neighborhood. In order to carry out the first step Sigmund shows that any peri- odic measure can be approximated by Markov measure and that any two Markov measures can be connected by a path of Markov measures. We use Sigmund's idea in our proof of Theorem 1.1. A different approach to Sigmund's theorem is to show that ergodic measures on a transitive topological Markov shift are dense in the space of all invariant measures. Since the latter space is a simplex and ergodic measures are its extremal points, it means that this space is the Poulsen simplex (which is unique up to a homeomorphism). The desired result now follows from a complete description of the Poulsen simplex given in (23) (see also (14)). We use this approach to prove our Theorem 1.2. Since Sigmund's work the interest to the study of connectedness of the space of hyperbolic ergodic measures has somehow been lost, 1 and only recently it has regain attention. In (15) Gogolev and Tahzibi, motivated by their study of existence of non-hyperbolic invariant measures, raised a question of whether the space of ergodic