American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2015, 20(10): 3345-3362. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.3345

Dimension theory of flows: A survey

 1 Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, 1049-001 Lisboa

Received  November 2014 Revised  March 2015 Published  September 2015

This is a survey on recent developments of the dimension theory of flows, with emphasis on hyperbolic flows. In particular, we describe various results of the dimension theory and multifractal analysis of flows, including the dimension of hyperbolic sets, the dimension of invariant measures, the multifractal analysis of equilibrium measures, conditional variational principles, multidimensional spectra, and dimension spectra taking both into account past and future. The dimension theory and the multifractal analysis of dynamical systems grew out exponentially during the last two decades, but for various reasons flows have initially been given less attention than maps. We emphasize that this is not the case anymore and the survey is also an invitation to the theory.
Citation: Luis Barreira. Dimension theory of flows: A survey. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2015, 20 (10) : 3345-3362. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.3345
References:
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References:
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Stat. Phys., 47 (1987), 609. doi: 10.1007/BF01206149. Google Scholar [14] K. Falconer, Dimensions and measures of quasi self-similar sets,, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 106 (1989), 543. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-1989-0969315-8. Google Scholar [15] T. Halsey, M. Jensen, L. Kadanoff, I. Procaccia and B. Shraiman, Fractal measures and their singularities: The characterization of strange sets,, Phys. Rev. A (3), 34 (1986). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.33.1141. Google Scholar [16] B. Hasselblatt, Regularity of the Anosov splitting and of horospheric foliations,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 14 (1994), 645. doi: 10.1017/S0143385700008105. Google Scholar [17] A. Lopes, The dimension spectrum of the maximal measure,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 20 (1989), 1243. doi: 10.1137/0520081. Google Scholar [18] H. McCluskey and A. Manning, Hausdorff dimension for horseshoes,, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 3 (1983), 251. doi: 10.1017/S0143385700001966. Google Scholar [19] J. Palis and M. Viana, On the continuity of Hausdorff dimension and limit capacity for horseshoes,, in Dynamical Systems (Valparaiso, (1986), 150. doi: 10.1007/BFb0083071. Google Scholar [20] Ya. Pesin, Dimension Theory in Dynamical Systems: Contemporary Views and Applications,, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, (1997). doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226662237.001.0001. Google Scholar [21] Ya. Pesin and V. Sadovskaya, Multifractal analysis of conformal axiom A flows,, Comm. Math. Phys., 216 (2001), 277. doi: 10.1007/s002200000329. Google Scholar [22] Ya. Pesin and H. Weiss, A multifractal analysis of equilibrium measures for conformal expanding maps and Markov Moran geometric constructions,, J. Statist. Phys., 86 (1997), 233. doi: 10.1007/BF02180206. Google Scholar [23] Ya. Pesin and H. Weiss, The multifractal analysis of Gibbs measures: motivation, mathematical foundation, and examples,, Chaos, 7 (1997), 89. doi: 10.1063/1.166242. Google Scholar [24] M. Pollicott and H. 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