Recursive divergence formulas for perturbing unstable transfer operators and physical measures

Abstract: We show that the derivative of the (measure) transfer operator with respect to the parameter of the map is a divergence. Then, for physical measures of discrete-time hyperbolic chaotic systems, we derive an equivariant divergence formula for the unstable perturbation of transfer operators along unstable manifolds. This formula and hence the linear response, the parameter-derivative of physical measures, can be sampled by recursively computing only $2u$ many vectors on one orbit, where $u$ is the unstable dimension. The numerical implementation of this formula in \cite{far} is neither cursed by dimensionality nor the sensitive dependence on initial conditions.