Upper semi-continuity of metric entropy for diffeomorphisms with dominated splitting

Chiyi Luo, Wenhui Ma, Yun Zhao

Published 2024-12-06Version 1

For a $C^{r}$ $(r>1)$ diffeomorphism on a compact manifold that admits a dominated splitting, this paper establishes the upper semi-continuity of the entropy map. More precisely, given a sequence of invariant measures with only positive Lyapunov exponents along a sub-bundle and non-positive Lyapunov exponents along another sub-bundle, the upper limit of their metric entropies is less than or equal to the entropy of the limiting measure.