Symbolic dynamics for large non-uniformly hyperbolic sets of three dimensional flows

Abstract

We construct symbolic dynamics for three dimensional flows with positive speed. More precisely, for each $\chi >0$, we code a set of full measure for every invariant probability measure which is $\chi$-hyperbolic. These include all ergodic measures with entropy bigger than $\chi$ as well as all hyperbolic periodic orbits of saddle-type with Lyapunov exponent outside of $[-\chi ,\chi ]$. This contrasts with a previous work of Lima & Sarig which built a coding associated to a given invariant probability measure. As an application, we code homoclinic classes of measures by suspensions of irreducible countable Markov shifts.

79 pages, 5 figures