2509.09050
Symbolic dynamics for non-uniformly hyperbolic flows in high dimension
Yuri Lima, Juan Carlos Mongez, João Paulo Nascimento
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:57 AM
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The uploaded paper proves (with full details) the existence, for each fixed χ>0, of a single locally compact topological Markov flow (Σ_r,σ_r) with Hölder roof and a Hölder semiconjugacy π_r that simultaneously codes a full-measure set for every χ–hyperbolic invariant measure and is finite-to-one on the regular set; this is their Main Theorem and Theorem 9.1, including parts (1)–(3) and further structure properties . In contrast, the candidate solution asserts a uniform positive lower bound on the roof/transition times (a τ_min>0) and on r, which the paper does not claim and is generally false in this construction: the roof is only required to be positive and uniformly bounded above (r̂: Σ̂→(0,ρ)), and short holonomy returns can make transition times arbitrarily small (see the definition of r̂ and Proposition 9.3, and the discussion around holonomy maps) . The model also glosses over the key, delicate local finiteness step, which in the paper depends on their inverse theorem and the refinement to a locally finite Markov cover Z before producing the final Markov partition; it is not a straightforward consequence of discretization as the model claims (see the method of proof and Section 7 leading into Section 9) . Therefore, while the model’s high-level outline tracks the paper’s scheme, it contains incorrect claims and missing arguments; the paper’s argument is correct and complete for the stated results.
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\textbf{Recommendation:} no revision \textbf{Journal Tier:} strong field \textbf{Justification:} The manuscript establishes a single, locally compact symbolic model for all χ–hyperbolic measures for flows with positive speed in any dimension, extending key 3D results. The construction is technically demanding (inverse theorem, locally finite cover, refinement, Bowen relation) and appears sound. The exposition is well-structured and self-contained, with clear indications of what is borrowed from prior work and what is novel.