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Connecting ergodicity and dimension in dynamical systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

C. D. Cutler
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaN2L 3G1
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Abstract

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In this paper we make precise the relationship between local or pointwise dimension and the dimension structure of Borel probability measures on metric spaces. Sufficient conditions for exact-dimensionality of the stationary ergodic distributions associated with a dynamical system are obtained. A counterexample is provided to show that ergodicity alone is not sufficient to guarantee exactdimensionality even in the case of continuous maps or flows.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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