We present an original approach which allows us to investigate the statistical properties of a non-uniformly hyperbolic map on the interval. Based on a stochastic approximation of the deterministic map, this method essentially gives the optimal polynomial bound for the decay of correlations, the degree depending on the order of the tangency at the neutral fixed point.

We investigate the existence and statistical properties of absolutely continuous invariant measures for multidimensional expanding maps with singularities. The key point is the establishment of a spectral gap in the spectrum of the transfer operator. Our assumptions appear quite naturally for maps with singularities. We allow maps that are discontinuous on some extremely wild sets, the shape of the discontinuities being completely ignored with our approach.

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