Propriedades ergódicas do modelo geométrico do atrator de Lorenz

Abstract

This work has its motivation in the study of the ergodic properties of the Lorenz geometric model, constructed to approximate the behavior of solutions of the Lorenz equations. Simultaneously, Afraimovich in [17] and Guckenheimer and Williams [18], constructed a geometric model that mimics the dynamics of the original Lorenz equations. Here, we build ergodic physical measures for two types of applications that arise from the Lorenz geometric model. The first one is a piecewise expanding one-dimensional map and the second is a two-dimensional application wich contracts the leaves of an invariant foliation. To construct the ergodic physical measure for the one dimensional Lorenz map, we make use of an operator (transfer operator) acting in the space of bounded variation functions, while the second uses the Riesz representation theorem and some other topological properties.