A classic approach in dynamical systems is to use particular geometric
structures to deduce statistical properties, for example the existence of
invariant measures with stochastic-like behaviour such as large deviations or
decay of correlations. Such geometric structures are generally highly
non-trivial and thus a natural question is the extent to which this approach
can be applied.
We consider the quadratic family of maps given by $f_{a}(x)=1-a x^2$ with
$x\in [-1,1]$, where $a$ is a Benedicks-Carleson parameter.