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Under a general hypothesis an expanding map T of a Riemannian manifold M is known to preserve a measure equivalent to the Liouville measure on that manifold. As a consequence of this and Birkhoff’s pointwise ergodic theorem, the orbits of almost all points on the manifold are asymptotically distributed with regard to this Liouville measure. Let T be Lipschitz of class τ for some τ in (0,1], let Ω(x) denote the forward orbit closure of x and for a positive real number δ and let E(x0, δ) denote the set of points x in M such that the distance from x0 to Ω is at least δ. Let dim A denote the Hausdorff dimension of the set A. In this paper we prove a result which implies that there is a constant C(T) > 0 such that \(\dim E(x_0,\delta) \ge \dim M - \frac{C(T)}{\vert\!\log \delta \vert} \) if τ = 1 and \(\dim E(x_0,\delta) \ge \dim M - \frac{C(T)}{\log \vert \log \delta \vert}\) if τ < 1. This gives a quantitative converse to the above asymptotic distribution phenomenon. The result we prove is of sufficient generality that a similar result for expanding hyperbolic rational maps of degree not less than two follows as a special case.
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Abercrombie, A., Nair, R. An Exceptional Set in the Ergodic Theory of Expanding Maps on Manifolds. Mh Math 148, 1–17 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-005-0391-3
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