Expansive Measures versus Lyapunov exponents

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the relation between measure expansiveness and hyperbolicity. We prove that non atomic invariant ergodic measures with all of its Lyapunov exponents positive is positively measure-expansive. We also prove that local diffeomorphisms robustly positively measure-expansive is expanding. Finally, we prove that if a $C^1$ volume preserving diffeomorphism that. can not be accumulated by positively measure expansive diffeomorphis have a dominated sppliting.

Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society