Existence and uniqueness of maximizing measures for robust classes of local diffeomorphisms

Marcelo Viana | Oliveira, Krerley

Keywords: maximizing measure | variational principle | hyperbolic times

We prove existence of maximal entropy measures for an open set of non-expanding local diffeomorphisms on a compact Riemannian manifold. In this context the topological entropy coincides with the logarithm of the degree, and these maximizing measures are eigenmeasures of the transfer operator. When the map is topologically mixing, the maximizing measure is unique and positive on every open set.

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