Intermittency generated by attracting and weakly repelling fixed points

Abstract: Recently for a class of critically intermittent random systems a phase transition was found for the finiteness of the absolutely continuous invariant measure. The systems for which this result holds are characterized by the interplay between a superexponentially attracting fixed point and an exponentially repelling fixed point. In this article we consider a closely related family of random systems with instead exponentially fast attraction to and polynomially fast repulsion from two fixed points, and show that such a phase transition still exists. The method of the proof however is different and relies on the construction of a suitable invariant set for the transfer operator.