The main objective of this book is to give a broad uni?ed introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence inhyperbolic dynamics. It includes a disc- sion of the foundations, main results, and main techniques in the rich interplay of fourmain areas of research: hyperbolic dynamics, dimension theory, multifractal analysis, and quantitative recurrence. It also gives a panorama of several selected topics of current research interest. This includes topics on irregular sets, var- tional principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal rigidity, and quantitative recurrence. The book isdirected to researchersas well as graduate students whowish to have a global view of the theory together with a working knowledgeof its main techniques. It can also be used as a basis for graduatecourses in dimension theory of dynamical systems, multifractal analysis (together with a discussion of several special topics), and pointwise dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. I hope that the book may serve as a fast entry point to this exciting and active ?eld of research, and also that it may lead to further developments.

Pragmatic introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics, traveling firmly but also rigorously from the basics to the frontiers of research in the area More than half of the material appears here for the first time in book form, with the description of many recent developments in the area, on topics such as irregular sets, variational principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal nonrigidity, and quantitative recurrence The author is the winner of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2008 Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Luis Barreira is a Full Professor of Mathematics at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon and a member of the Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry, and Dynamical Systems. He obtained his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996. In 2007 he has been awarded the Gulbenkian Science Prize.

Klappentext

The main objective of this book is to give a broad unified introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. It includes the discussion of the foundations, main results, and main techniques in the rich interplay of four main areas of research: hyperbolic dynamics, dimension theory, multifractal analysis, and quantitative recurrence. It also gives a panorama of several selected topics of current research interest. More than half of the material appears here for the first time in book form, describing many recent developments in the area such as topics on irregular sets, variational principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal nonrigidity, and quantitative recurrence. All the results are included with detailed proofs, many of them simplified or rewritten on purpose for the book.

The text is self-contained and directed to researchers as well as graduate students that wish to have a global view of the theory together with a working knowledge of its main techniques. It will also be useful as as basis for graduate courses in dimension theory of dynamical systems, multifractal analysis, and pointwise dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics.

Inhalt
Basic Notions.- Basic Notions.- Dimension Theory.- Dimension Theory and Thermodynamic Formalism.- Repellers and Hyperbolic Sets.- Measures of Maximal Dimension.- Multifractal Analysis: Core Theory.- Multifractal Analysis of Equilibrium Measures.- General Concept of Multifractal Analysis.- Dimension of Irregular Sets.- Variational Principles in Multifractal Analysis.- Multifractal Analysis: Further Developments.- Multidimensional Spectra and Number Theory.- Multifractal Rigidity.- Hyperbolic Sets: Past and Future.- Hyperbolicity and Recurrence.- Pointwise Dimension for Hyperbolic Dynamics.- Product Structure of Hyperbolic Measures.- Quantitative Recurrence and Dimension Theory.