We consider smooth maps on compact Riemannian manifolds. We prove that under
some mild condition of eventual volume expansion Lebesgue almost everywhere we
have uniform backward volume contraction on every pre-orbit of Lebesgue almost
every point.
We consider a partially hyperbolic set $K$ on a Riemannian manifold $M$ whose
tangent space splits as $T_K M=E^{cu}\oplus E^{s}$, for which the
centre-unstable direction $E^{cu}$ expands non-uniformly on some local unstable
disk. We show that under these assumptions $f$ induces a Gibbs-Markov
structure. Moreover, the decay of the return time function can be controlled in
terms of the time typical points need to achieve some uniform expanding
behavior in the centre-unstable direction.
We consider a partially hyperbolic set $K$ on a Riemannian manifold $M$ whose
tangent space splits as $T_K M=E^{cu}\oplus E^{s}$, for which the
centre-unstable direction $E^{cu}$ expands non-uniformly on some local unstable
disk. We show that under these assumptions $f$ induces a Gibbs-Markov
structure. Moreover, the decay of the return time function can be controlled in
terms of the time typical points need to achieve some uniform expanding
behavior in the centre-unstable direction.