Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2017
For a measure-preserving dynamical system $({\mathcal{X}},f,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$, we consider the time series of maxima
$M_{n}=\max \{X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n}\}$ associated to the process
$X_{n}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}(f^{n-1}(x))$ generated by the dynamical system for some observable
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}:{\mathcal{X}}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Using a point-process approach we establish weak convergence of the process
$Y_{n}(t)=a_{n}(M_{[nt]}-b_{n})$ to an extremal process
$Y(t)$ for suitable scaling constants
$a_{n},b_{n}\in \mathbb{R}$. Convergence here takes place in the Skorokhod space
$\mathbb{D}(0,\infty )$ with the
$J_{1}$ topology. We also establish distributional results for the record times and record values of the corresponding maxima process.