Abstract
Let (X, Σ, σ) be a finite measure space and S: X→X be a nonsingular transformation such that the corresponding Frobenius–Perron operator P S : L 1(X)→L 1(X) has a stationary density f*. We propose a piecewise-constant maximum entropy method for the numerical recovery of f* and give its relation to the classic Birkhoff's individual ergodic theorem. An advantage of the piecewise-constant method over the current maximum entropy method based on polynomial basis functions is that a nonlinear system of equations is not needed for solving the related moment problem. Numerical results are given for several one dimensional test mappings.
Acknowledgements
The authors are thankful for the helpful suggestions of anonymous referees which improved the paper, and for introducing the paper Citation11.