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Federico Rodriguez Hertz

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arXiv2021

Pointwise normality and Fourier decay for self-conformal measures

Let $Φ$ be a $C^{1+γ}$ smooth IFS on $\mathbb{R}$, where $γ>0$. We provide mild conditions on the derivative cocycle that ensure that every self conformal measure is supported on points $x$ that are absolutely normal. That is, for integer $p\geq 2$ the sequence $\lbrace p^k x \rbrace_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ equidistributes modulo $1$. We thus extend several state of the art results of Hochman and Shmerkin about the prevalence of normal numbers in fractals. When $Φ$ is self-similar we show that the set of absolutely normal numbers has full Hausdorff dimension in its attractor, unless $Φ$ has an explicit structure that is associated with some integer $n\geq 2$. These conditions on the derivative cocycle are also shown to imply that every self conformal measure is a Rajchman measure, that is, its Fourier transform decays to $0$ at infinity. When $Φ$ is self similar and satisfies a certain Diophantine condition, we establish a logarithmic rate of decay.

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arXiv2021

Flexibility of Lyapunov exponents

We outline the flexibility program in smooth dynamics, focusing on flexibility of Lyapunov exponents for volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. We prove flexibility results for Anosov diffeomorphisms admitting dominated splittings into one-dimensional bundles.

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arXiv2020

Abelian Livshits theorems and geometric applications

We introduce a notion of abelian cohomology in the context of smooth flows. This is an equivalence relation which is weaker than the standard cohomology equivalence relation for flows. We develop Livshits theory for abelian cohomology over transitive Anosov flows. In particular, we prove an abelian Livshits theorem for homologically full Anosov flows. Then we apply this theorem to strengthen marked length spectrum rigidity for negatively curved surfaces. We also present an application to rigidity of contact Anosov flows. Some new results on homologically full Anosov flows are also given.

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arXiv2019

Surgery for partially hyperbolic dynamical systems II. Blow-up of a complex curve

In this paper we use the blow-up surgery introduced in [G] to produce new higher dimensional partially hyperbolic flows. The main contribution of the paper is the slow-down construction which accompanies the blow-up construction. This new ingredient allows to dispose of a rather strong domination assumption which was crucial for results in [G]. Consequently we gain more flexibility which allows to construct new volume-preserving partially hyperbolic flows as well as new examples which are not fiberwise Anosov. The latter are produced by starting with the geodesic flow on complex hyperbolic manifold which admits a totally geodesic complex curve. Then by performing the slow-down first and the blow-up second we obtain a new (volume-preserving) partially hyperbolic flows.

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arXiv2017

Anomalous Anosov flows revisited

This paper is devoted to higher dimensional Anosov flows and consists of two parts. In the first part, we investigate fiberwise Anosov flows on affine torus bundles which fiber over 3-dimensional Anosov flows. We provide a dichotomy result for such flows --- they are either suspensions of Anosov diffeomorphisms or the stable and unstable distributions have equal dimensions. In the second part, we give a new surgery type construction of Anosov flows, which yields non-transitive Anosov flows in all odd dimensions.

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arXiv2017

Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces and related skew products

Given a surface $M$ and a Borel probability measure $ν$ on the group of $C^2$-diffeomorphisms of $M$, we study $ν$-stationary probability measures on $M$. We prove for hyperbolic stationary measures the following trichotomy: either the stable distributions are non-random, the measure is SRB, or the measure is supported on a finite set and is hence almost-surely invariant. In the proof of the above results, we study skew products with surface fibers over a measure preserving transformations equipped with a decreasing sub-$σ$-algebra $\hat {\mathcal F}$ and derive a related result. A number of applications of our main theorem are presented.

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arXiv2017

Invariant measures and measurable projective factors for actions of higher-rank lattices on manifolds

We consider smooth actions of lattices in higher-rank semisimple Lie groups on manifolds. We define two numbers $r(G)$ and $m(G)$ associated with the roots system of the Lie algebra of a Lie group $G$. If the dimension of the manifold is smaller than $r(G)$, then we show the action preserves a Borel probability measure. If the dimension of the manifold is at most $m(G)$, we show there is a quasi-invariant measure on the manifold such that the action is measurable isomorphic to a relatively measure preserving action over a standard boundary action.

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arXiv2016

Partially hyperbolic dynamics in dimension 3

Partial hyperbolicity appeared in the sixties as a natural generaliza- tion of hyperbolicity. In the last 20 years in this area there has been great activity. Here we survey the state of the art in some topics, focusing especially in partial hyperbolicity in dimension 3. The reason for this is not only that it is the smallest dimension in which non-degenerate partial hyperbolicity can occur, but also that the topology of 3-manifolds influences this dynamics in revealing ways.

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arXiv2016

Smooth ergodic theory of $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions

In the first part of this paper, we formulate a general setting in which to study the ergodic theory of differentiable $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions preserving a Borel probability measure. This framework includes actions by $C^{1+\text{Hölder}}$ diffeomorphisms of compact manifolds. We construct intermediate and coarse unstable manifolds for the action and establish controls on their local geometry. In the second part we consider the relationship between entropy, Lyapunov exponents, and the geometry of conditional measures for rank-1 systems given by a number of generalizations of the Ledrappier--Young entropy formula. In the third part, for a smooth action of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ preserving a Borel probability measure, we show that entropy satisfies a certain "product structure" along coarse unstable manifolds. Moreover, given two smooth $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions---one of which is a measurable factor of the other---we show that all coarse Lyapunov exponents contributing to the entropy of the factor system are coarse Lyapunov exponents of the total system. As a consequence, we derive an Abramov--Rohlin formula for entropy subordinated to coarse unstable manifolds.

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arXiv2016

Global smooth and topological rigidity of hyperbolic lattice actions

In this article we prove global rigidity results for hyperbolic actions of higher-rank lattices. Suppose $Γ$ is a lattice in semisimple Lie group, all of whose factors have rank $2$ or higher. Let $α$ be a smooth $Γ$-action on a compact nilmanifold $M$ that lifts to an action on the universal cover. If the linear data $ρ$ of $α$ contains a hyperbolic element, then there is a continuous semiconjugacy intertwining the actions of $α$ and $ρ$, on a finite-index subgroup of $Γ$. If $α$ is a $C^\infty$ action and contains an Anosov element, then the semiconjugacy is a $C^\infty$ conjugacy. As a corollary, we obtain $C^\infty$ global rigidity for Anosov actions by cocompact lattices in semisimple Lie group with all factors rank $2$ or higher. We also obtain global rigidity of Anosov actions of $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb Z)$ on $\mathbb T^n$ for $ n\geq 5$ and probability-preserving Anosov actions of arbitrary higher-rank lattices on nilmanifolds.

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arXiv2015

New partially hyperbolic dynamical systems I

We propose a new method for constructing partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on closed manifolds. As a demonstration of the method we show that there are simply connected closed manifolds that support partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms.

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arXiv2015

Invariant Distributions for homogeneous flows

We prove that every homogeneous flow on a finite-volume homogeneous manifold has countably many independent invariant distributions unless it is conjugate to a linear flow on a torus. We also prove that the same conclusion holds for every affine transformation of a homogenous space which is not conjugate to a toral translation. As a part of the proof, we have that any smooth partially hyperbolic flow on any compact manifold has countably many distinct minimal sets, hence countably many distinct ergodic probability measures. As a consequence, the Katok and Greenfield-Wallach conjectures hold in all of the above cases.

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arXiv2015

Measure rigidity for random dynamics on surfaces with positive entropy

Given a surface $M$ and a Borel probability measure $ν$ on the group of $C^2$-diffeomorphisms of $M$, we study $ν$-stationary probability measures on $M$. Assuming the positivity of a certain entropy, the following dichotomy is proved: either the stable distributions for the random dynamics is non-random, or the measure is SRB. In the case that $ν$-a.e. diffeomorphism preserves a common smooth measure $m$, we show that for any positive-entropy stationary measure $μ$, either there exists a $ν$-almost surely invariant $μ$-measurable line field (corresponding do the stable distributions for almost every random composition) or the measure $μ$ is $ν$-almost surely invariant and coincides with an ergodic component of $m$. To prove the above result, we introduce a skew product with surface fibers over a measure preserving transformation equipped with an increasing sub-$σ$-algebra $\hat F$. Given an invariant measure $μ$ for the skew product, and assuming the $\hat F$-measurability of the `past dynamics' and the fiber-wise conditional measures, we prove a dichotomy: either the fiber-wise stable distributions are measurable with respect to a related increasing sub-$σ$-algebra, or the measure $μ$ is fiber-wise SRB.

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arXiv2014

A non-dynamically coherent example on ${\mathbb T}^3$

In this paper we give the first example of a non-dynamically coherent partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism with one-dimensional center bundle. The existence of such an example had been an open question since 1975.

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arXiv2014

The Fried average entropy and slow entropy for actions of higher rank abelian groups

We consider two numerical entropy--type invariants for actions of $\Zk$, invariant under a choice of generators and well-adapted for smooth actions whose individual elements have positive entropy. We concentrate on the maximal rank case, i.e. $\Zk,\,k\ge 2$ actions on $k+1$-dimensional manifolds. In this case we show that for a fixed dimension (or, equivalently, rank) each of the invariants determines the other and their values are closely related to regulators in algebraic number fields. In particular, in contrast with the classical case of $\mathbb Z$ actions the entropies of ergodic maximal rank actions take only countably many values. Our main result is the dichotomy that is best expressed under the assumption of weak mixing or, equivalently, no periodic factors: either both invariants vanish, or their values are bounded away from zero by universal constants. Furthermore, the lower bounds grow with dimension: for the first invariant (the Fried average entropy) exponentially, and for the second (the slow entropy) linearly.

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