

Ergodic theory of the geodesic flow of hyperbolic surfaces - Lecture 1
By Barbara Schapira


Ergodic theory of the geodesic flow of hyperbolic surfaces - Lecture 2
By Barbara Schapira
Appears in collection : Multifractal analysis and self-similarity / Analyse multifractale et auto-similarité
We study skew products of circle diffeomorphisms over a shift space. Our primary motivation is the fact that they capture some key mechanisms of nonhyperbolic behavior of robustly transitive dynamical systems. We perform a multifractal analysis of fiber-Lyapunov exponents studying the topological entropy of fibers with equal exponent. This includes the study of restricted variational principles of the entropy of ergodic measures with given fiber-exponent, in particular, with exponent zero. This enables to understand transitive dynamical systems in which hyperbolicities of different type are intermingled. Moreover, it enables to 'quantify of the amount of non-hyperbolicity' in a context where any other tools presently available fail. This is joint work with L.J. Díaz and M. Rams.