{ "id": "math/0609695", "version": "v2", "published": "2006-09-25T14:53:56.000Z", "updated": "2008-06-04T18:41:37.000Z", "title": "Equilibrium Measures for Maps with Inducing Schemes", "authors": [ "Yakov Pesin", "Samuel Senti" ], "journal": "J. Mod. Dyn. 2 (2008), no. 3, 397- 430", "doi": "10.3934/jmd.2008.2.397", "categories": [ "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We introduce a class of continuous maps f of a compact metric space I admitting inducing schemes and describe the tower constructions associated with them. We then establish a thermodynamical formalism, i.e., describe a class of real-valued potential functions \\phi on I which admit unique equilibrium measures \\mu_\\phi minimizing the free energy for a certain class of measures. We also describe ergodic properties of equilibrium measures including decay of correlation and the Central Limit Theorem. Our results apply in particular to some one-dimensional unimodal and multimodal maps as well as to multidimensional nonuniformly hyperbolic maps admitting Young's tower. Examples of potential functions to which our theory applies include \\phi_t=-t\\log|df| with t\\in(t_0, t_1) for some t_0<1