SRB and equilibrium measures via dimension theory

Abstract

It is well-known that SRB and equilibrium measures for uniformly hyperbolic flows admit a product structure in terms of measures on stable and unstable leaves with scaling properties given by the potential function. We describe a construction of these leaf measures analogous to the definition of Hausdorff measure, relying on the Pesin-Pitskel' description of topological pressure as a dimensional characteristic using Bowen balls. These leaf measures were constructed for discrete-time systems by the author, Ya. Pesin, and A. Zelerowicz. In the continuous-time setting here, the description of the scaling properties is more complete, and we use a similar procedure with two-sided Bowen balls to directly produce the equilibrium measure itself.