Folklore conjecture on maximum measures for surface diffeomorphisms

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Let f:M→Mf:M\to M be a C∞C^\infty surface diffeomorphism, and let htop⁡(f)h_{\operatorname{top}}(f) denote its topological entropy. A maximum measure is an invariant probability measure whose measure-theoretic entropy equals htop⁡(f)h_{\operatorname{top}}(f). Folklore conjecture. If

htop⁡(f)>0,h_{\operatorname{top}}(f)>0,

then ff has finitely many maximum measures. This is the surface-diffeomorphism analogue of the corresponding result for smooth interval maps; it remains open, although related results are known for toy models.

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Jerome Buzzi, “Dimensional entropies and semi-uniform hyperbolicity”, arXiv:1102.0612 (2011).

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