On the relation between Lyapunov exponents and exponential decay of correlations

Julia Slipantschuk, Oscar F. Bandtlow, Wolfram Just

Published 2012-09-12Version 1

Chaotic dynamics with sensitive dependence on initial conditions may result in exponential decay of correlation functions. We show that for one-dimensional interval maps the corresponding quantities, that is, Lyapunov exponents and exponential decay rates are related. For piecewise linear expanding Markov maps observed via piecewise analytic functions we provide explicit bounds of the decay rate in terms of the Lyapunov exponent. In addition, we comment on similar relations for general piecewise smooth expanding maps.