Pressure and exponential rate over periodic orbits

Abstract

For a measure μ preserved by a C1+α0 (α0>0) diffeomorphism f and a continuous function ϕ on the manifold, we study the relationship between the exponential growth rate of ∑eSnϕ(x) over the orbits of some periodic points and the free energy hμ(f)+∫ϕdμ (in certain cases, it is equal to the measure theoretic pressure) or the topological pressure. When μ is an ergodic hyperbolic measure, we prove that the exponential growth rate coincides with the free energy (measure theoretic pressure). And we also verify the equality of the exponential growth rate and the topological pressure when the manifold is 2-dimensional. However, for the higher-dimensional manifold, we show an inequality between the exponential growth rate and the topological pressure. For an ergodic hyperbolic measure ω, we also prove that there is a ω-full measured set Λ˜ such that for every f-invariant measure supported on Λ˜, the exponential growth rate equals to the free energy. And moreover, we prove that there is another ω-full measured set Δ˜ such that for every f-invariant measure supported on Δ˜, the exponential growth rate equals to the topological pressure.