Thermodynamic Formalism Out of Equilibrium Part III: Local Limit Theorem and Statistical Properties

Abstract

We study limit theorems for random dynamical systems. We recast the random dynamics via the skew-product of the two-point motion (the Varadhan trick). Using this approach we prove several statistical properties for the system, including quenched central limit theorems with rates, quenched local limit theorem, large deviations, and decay of correlations. Then, in applications we show how to verify the general conditions using spectral properties of appropriate operators. A key application is the study of effectively expanding on average random diffeomorphisms (in any dimension, which are allowed to be dissipative). In particular, this is the first instance of proving local limit theorems in such a broad setting, without imposing restrictions on the dynamics. We provide several new examples.