Asymptotic entropy drops and escape rates for Gibbs measures

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Monday, April 26, 2010 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Mark Pollicott – University of Warwick
Organizer
Yingfei Yi
We consider a shift transformation and a Gibbs measure and estimate the drop in entropy caused by deleting an arbitrarily small (cylinder) set. This extends a result of Lind. We also estimate the speed at which the Gibbs measure escapes into the set, which relates to recent work of Bunimovich-Yurchenko and Keller-Liverani. This is joint with Andrew Ferguson.