| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 12 |
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| Hyperbolicity and Beyond | 18 |
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| 1.1 Spectral decomposition | 18 |
| 1.2 Structural stability | 20 |
| 1.3 Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen theory | 21 |
| 1.4 Heterodimensional cycles | 23 |
| 1.5 Homoclinic tangencies | 23 |
| 1.6 Attract ors and physical measures | 24 |
| 1.7 A conjecture on finitude of attractors | 26 |
| One-Dimensional Dynamics | 29 |
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| 2.1 Hyperbolicity | 29 |
| 2.2 Non-critical behavior | 32 |
| 2.3 Density of hyperbolicity | 34 |
| 2.4 Chaotic behavior | 34 |
| 2.5 The renormalization theorem | 36 |
| 2.6 Statistical properties of unimodal maps | 37 |
| Homoclinic Tangencies | 41 |
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| 3.1 Homoclinic tangencies and Cantor sets | 42 |
| 3.2 Persistent tangencies, coexistence of attractors | 43 |
| 3.3 Hyperbolicity and fractal dimensions | 50 |
| 3.4 Stable intersections of regular Cantor sets | 54 |
| 3.5 Homoclinic tangencies in higher dimensions | 60 |
| 3.6 On the boundary of hyperbolic systems | 66 |
| Henon-like Dynamics | 71 |
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| 4.1 Henon-like families | 72 |
| 4.2 Abundance of strange attractors | 77 |
| 4.3 Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures | 85 |
| 4.4 Decay of correlations and central limit theorem | 95 |
| 4.5 Stochastic stability | 99 |
| 4.6 Chaotic dynamics near homoclinic tangencies | 103 |
| Non-Critical Dynamics and Hyperbolicity | 112 |
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| 5.1 Non-critical surface dynamics | 112 |
| 5.2 Domination implies almost hyperbolicity | 114 |
| 5.3 Homoclinic tangencies vs. Axiom A | 115 |
| 5.4 Entropy and homoclinic points on surfaces | 117 |
| 5.5 Non-critical behavior in higher dimensions | 119 |
| Heterodimensional Cycles and Blenders | 122 |
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| 6.1 Heterodimensional cycles | 123 |
| 6.2 Blenders | 129 |
| 6.3 Partially hyperbolic cycles | 135 |
| Robust Transitivity | 137 |
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| 7.1 Examples of robust transitivity | 138 |
| 7.2 Consequences of robust transitivity | 142 |
| 7.3 Invariant foliations | 152 |
| Stable Ergodicity | 161 |
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| 8.1 Examples of stably ergodic systems | 162 |
| 8.2 Accessibility and ergodicity | 164 |
| 8.3 The theorem of Pugh-Shub | 165 |
| 8.4 Stable ergodicity of torus automorphisms | 166 |
| 8.5 Stable ergodicity and robust transitivity | 167 |
| 8.6 Lyapunov exponents and stable ergodicity | 168 |
| Robust Singular Dynamics | 170 |
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| 9.1 Singular invariant sets | 171 |
| 9.2 Singular cycles | 177 |
| 9.3 Robust transitivity and singular hyperbolicity | 182 |
| 9.4 Consequences of singular hyperbolicity | 191 |
| 9.5 Singular Axiom A flows | 196 |
| 9.6 Persistent singular attractors | 199 |
| Generic Diffeomorphisms | 202 |
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| 10.1 A quick overview | 202 |
| 10.2 Notions of recurrence | 205 |
| 10.3 Decomposing the dynamics to elementary pieces | 206 |
| 10.4 Homoclinic classes and elementary pieces | 212 |
| 10.5 Wild behavior vs. tame behavior | 217 |
| 10.6 A sample of wild dynamics | 220 |
| SRB Measures and Gibbs States | 226 |
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| 11.1 SRB measures for certain non-hyperbolic maps | 227 |
| 11.2 Gibbs u-states for Eu © Ecs systems | 234 |
| 11.3 SRB measures for dominated dynamics | 246 |
| 11.4 Generic existence of SRB measures | 253 |
| 11.5 Extensions and related results | 260 |
| Lyapunov Exponents | 265 |
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| 12.1 Continuity of Lyapunov exponents | 266 |
| 12.2 A dichotomy for conservative systems | 270 |
| 12.3 Deterministic products of matrices | 273 |
| 12.4 Abundance of non-zero exponents | 276 |
| 12.5 Looking for non-zero Lyapunov exponents | 281 |
| 12.6 Hyperbolic measures are exact dimensional | 286 |
| A Perturbation Lemmas | 288 |
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| B Normal Hyperbolicity and Foliations | 298 |
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| C Non-Uniformly Hyperbolic Theory | 309 |
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| D Random Perturbations | 321 |
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| E Decay of Correlations | 332 |
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| Conclusion | 357 |
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| References | 360 |
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| Index | 381 |