Absolutely Continuous Invariant measures for non-autonomous dynamical systems

Abstract

We consider the non autonomous dynamical system $\{{\tau }_n\},$ where ${\tau }_n$ is a continuous map $X\to X,$ and $X$ is a compact metric space. We assume that $\{{\tau }_n\}$ converges uniformly to $\tau .$ The inheritance of chaotic properties as well as topological entropy by $\tau$ from the sequence $\{{\tau }_n\}$ has been studied in \cite{Can1, Can2, Li,Ste,Zhu}. In \cite{You} the generalization of SRB\ measures to non-autonomous systems has been considered. In this paper we study absolutely continuous invariant measures (acim) for non autonomous systems. After generalizing the Krylov-Bogoliubov Theorem \cite{KB} and Straube's Theorem \cite{Str} to the non autonomous setting, we prove that under certain conditions the limit map $\tau$ of a non autonomous sequence of maps $\{{\tau }_n\}$ with acims has an acim.