{ "id": "math/0408096", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-08-07T14:03:30.000Z", "updated": "2004-08-07T14:03:30.000Z", "title": "Differentiating the absolutely continuous invariant measure of an interval map f with respect to f", "authors": [ "David Ruelle" ], "comment": "10 pages, plain TeX", "doi": "10.1007/s00220-004-1267-4", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "Let the map $f:[-1,1]\\to[-1,1]$ have a.c.i.m. $\\rho$ (absolutely continuous $f$-invariant measure with respect to Lebesgue). Let $\\delta\\rho$ be the change of $\\rho$ corresponding to a perturbation $X=\\delta f\\circ f^{-1}$ of $f$. Formally we have, for differentiable $A$, $$ \\delta\\rho(A)=\\sum_{n=0}^\\infty\\int\\rho(dx) X(x){d\\over dx}A(f^nx) $$ but this expression does not converge in general. For $f$ real-analytic and Markovian in the sense of covering $(-1,1)$ $m$ times, and assuming an {\\it analytic expanding} condition, we show that $$\\lambda\\mapsto\\Psi(\\lambda)=\\sum_{n=0}^\\infty\\lambda^n \\int\\rho(dx) X(x){d\\over dx}A(f^nx) $$ is meromorphic in ${\\bf C}$, and has no pole at $\\lambda=1$. We can thus formally write $\\delta\\rho(A)=\\Psi(1)$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-08-07T14:03:30.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "absolutely continuous invariant measure", "interval map", "differentiating", "perturbation", "expression" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Springer", "journal": "Commun. Math. Phys." }, "note": { "typesetting": "Plain TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }