A variational principle for topological pressure for certain non-compact sets

Abstract

Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space, $f:X\mapsto X$ be a continuous map with the specification property, and $φ: X \mapsto \IR$ be a continuous function. We prove a variational principle for topological pressure (in the sense of Pesin and Pitskel) for non-compact sets of the form \[ \{x \in X : \lim_{n \ra \infty} \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i = 0}^{n-1} φ(f^i (x)) = α\}. \] Analogous results were previously known for topological entropy. As an application, we prove multifractal analysis results for the entropy spectrum of a suspension flow over a continuous map with specification and the dimension spectrum of certain non-uniformly expanding interval maps.

Cited by in corpus (7)

• The thermodynamic approach to multifractal analysis
• Multifractal analysis for historic set in topological dynamical systems
• Different Asymptotic Behavior versus Same Dynamical Complexity
• Multifractal analysis for weak Gibbs measures: from large deviations to irregular sets
• Multifractal analysis of the irregular set for almost-additive sequences via large deviations
• A variational principle for the metric mean dimension of level sets
• Variational principles for metric mean dimension with potential of level sets