Growth of normalizing sequences in limit theorems for conservative maps

Abstract

We consider normalizing sequences that can give rise to nondegenerate limittheorems for Birkhoff sums under the iteration of a conservative map. Mostclassical limit theorems involve normalizing sequences that are polynomial,possibly with an additional slowly varying factor. We show that, ingeneral, there can be no nondegenerate limit theorem with a normalizingsequence that grows exponentially, but that there are examples where itgrows like a stretched exponential, with an exponent arbitrarily close to 1.