The weak non-uniform hyperbolicity conjecture for physical measures

Let ff be a diffeomorphism and let the attracting set under consideration have a dominated splitting. Weak non-uniform expansion means that

lim infnSnϕcu(x)/n<0\liminf_{n\nearrow\infty} S_n\phi^{cu}(x)/n<0

on a positive-volume subset of points in the trapping region, and weak non-uniform contraction means that

lim infnSnϕcs(x)/n<0\liminf_{n\nearrow\infty} S_n\phi^{cs}(x)/n<0

on such a subset. Weak non-uniform hyperbolicity conjecture. Every attracting set with a dominated splitting with both weak non-uniform expansion and weak non-uniform contraction admits a physical measure. This would extend existing results producing physical measures from weak non-uniform expansion or contraction in partially hyperbolic settings, and would allow the paper's mixing theorem to apply to the resulting physical measure.

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Vitor Araujo and Vilton Pinheiro, “Multidimensional non-uniform hyperbolicity, robust exponential mixing and the basin problem”, arXiv:2504.10264 (2025).

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