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A version of Kac’s lemma on first return times for suspension flows

Paulo Varandas

Paulo Varandas

Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Av. Ademar de Barros s/n, 40170-110 Salvador, Brazil

CMUP, University of Porto, Brazil

E-mail Address: paulo.varandas@ufba.br

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the mean return times to a given set for suspension flows. In the discrete time setting, this corresponds to the classical version of Kac’s lemma [11] that the mean of the first return time to a set with respect to the normalized probability measure is one. In the case of suspension flows we provide formulas to compute the mean return time. Positive measure sets on cross sections are also considered. In particular, this varies linearly with continuous reparametrizations of the flow and takes into account the mean escaping time from the original set. Relation with entropy and returns to positive measure sets on cross sections is also considered.

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AMSC: 37B20, 28D10, 37C10

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