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Lorenz-like flows: exponential decay of correlations for the Poincaré map, logarithm law, quantitative recurrence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2009

S. GALATOLO  and
MARIA JOSÉ PACIFICO
S. GALATOLO
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata via Buonarroti 1, 56100, Pisa, Italia (email: s.galatolo@docenti.ing.unipi.it)
MARIA JOSÉ PACIFICO
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, C. P. 68.530, 21.945-970 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (email: pacifico@im.ufrj.br)
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Abstract

In this paper we prove that the Poincaré map associated to a Lorenz-like flow has exponential decay of correlations with respect to Lipschitz observables. This implies that the hitting time associated to the flow satisfies a logarithm law. The hitting time τr(x,x0) is the time needed for the orbit of a point x to enter a ball Br(x0) centered at x0, with small radius r, for the first time. As the radius of the ball decreases to 0 its asymptotic behavior is a power law whose exponent is related to the local dimension of the physical measure at x0: for each x0 such that the local dimension dμ (x0) exists, holds for μ almost each x. In a similar way, it is possible to consider a quantitative recurrence indicator quantifying the speed of an orbit to come back to its starting point. Similar results hold for this recurrence indicator.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 30 , Issue 6 , December 2010 , pp. 1703 - 1737
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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