Statistical Stability for Barge-Martin attractors derived from tent maps

Abstract: Let ${f_t}_{t\in(1,2]}$ be the family of core tent maps of slopes $t$. The parameterized Barge-Martin construction yields a family of disk homeomorphisms $\Phi_t\colon D^2\to D^2$, having transitive global attractors $\Lambda_t$ on which $\Phi_t$ is topologically conjugate to the natural extension of $f_t$. The unique family of absolutely continuous invariant measures for $f_t$ induces a family of ergodic $\Phi_t$-invariant measures $\nu_t$, supported on the attractors $\Lambda_t$. We show that this family $\nu_t$ varies weakly continuously, and that the measures $\nu_t$ are physical with respect to a weakly continuously varying family of background Oxtoby-Ulam measures $\rho_t$. Similar results are obtained for the family $\chi_t\colon S^2\to S^2$ of transitive sphere homeomorphisms, constructed in [17] as factors of the natural extensions of $f_t$.