Functional Limit Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Correlated Maximal Sets

Abstract

In order to obtain functional limit theorems for heavy-tailed stationary processes arising from dynamical systems, one needs to understand the clustering patterns of the tail observations of the process. These patterns are well described by means of a structure called the pilling process introduced recently in the context of dynamical systems. So far, the pilling process has been computed only for observable functions maximised at a single repelling fixed point. Here, we study richer clustering behaviours by considering correlated maximal sets, in the sense that the observable is maximised in multiple points belonging to the same orbit, and we work out explicit expressions for the pilling process when the dynamics is piecewise linear and expanding (1-dimensional and 2-dimensional).