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Birkhoff averages of Poincar´e cycles for Axiom A diffeomorphisms 1 2 Jean-Ren´e Chazottes , Renaud Leplaideur 1 Centre de Physique Th´eorique CNRS-Ecole polytechnique, UMR 7644 F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex jeanrene@cpht.polytechnique.fr 2 Laboratoire de Math´ematiques Universit´e de Bretagne Occidentale 6, rue Victor Le Gorgeu BP 809 F-29285 Brest Cedex Renaud.Leplaideur@univ-brest.fr Abstract We study the time of nth return of orbits to some given (union of) rect- angle(s) of a Markov partition of an Axiom A diffeomorphism. Namely, we prove the existence of a scaled generating function for these returns with respect to any Gibbs measure (associated to a H¨olderian potential). As a by-product, we derive precise large deviation estimates and a central limit theorem for Birkhoff averages of Poincar´e cycles. We emphasize that we look at the limiting behavior in term of number of visits (the size of the visited set is kept fixed). Our approach relies on the spectral properties of a one-parameter family of induced transfer operators on unstable leaves crossing the visited set. 1 1 Introduction Let (X, f ) be some dynamical system preserving a probability measure µ and pick an arbitrary Borel set A ⊂ X of positive µ-measure. By Poincar´e’s recur- rence Theorem, µ-almost every point x ∈ A comes back infinitely many times in A upon iterations of f . We denote by rn (x), n ≥ 1, the time of the nth return A of x ∈ A to A. These times are defined by induction in the following way :