Computable conditions for the occurrence of non-uniform hyperbolicity in families of one-dimensional maps

Abstract

We formulate and prove a Jakobson-Benedicks-Carleson type theorem on the occurence of nonuniform hyperbolicity (stochastic dynamics) in families of one-dimensional maps, based on "computable starting conditions" and providing "explicit, computable," lower bounds for the measure of the set of selected parameters. As a first application of our results we show that the set of parameters corresponding to maps in the quadratic family f_{a}(x) = x^{2}-a which have an absolutely continuous invariant probability measure is at least 10^-5000 !