A Note on Operator Semigroups Associated to Chaotic Flows

Abstract

The transfer operator associated to a flow (continuous time dynamical system) is a one-parameter operator semigroup. We consider the operator-valued Laplace transform of this one-parameter semigroup. Estimates on the Laplace transform have be used in various settings in order to show the rate at which the flow mixes. Here we consider the case of exponential mixing or rapid mixing (super polynomial). We develop the operator theory framework amenable to this setting and show that the same estimates may be used to produce results, in terms of the operators, which go beyond the results for the rate of mixing. Such results are useful for obtaining other statistical properties of the dynamical system.